Spain squares up to wastewater challenge

Having risen to the challenge of large-scale desalination, Spain’s water chief Jaime Palop is now grappling with his country’s wastewater situation. He has plenty of ideas up his sleeve.

Climate change, an economic boom, population growth and exacting European regulations have all combined to make Jaime Palop Piqueras’ job as director-general for water at the Environment Ministry one of the toughest in Spanish government.

Since his appointment in October 2004, Palop has had two huge infrastructure programmes on his desk: Programa A.G.U.A., a €3.8 billion ...

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