Canaries sing out for €300m

A nod from Madrid is required before the Canaries can get their hands on €300m of new funding. New desal facilities and reuse initiatives await.

The Canary Islands government is pressing Madrid to unblock a water agreement which will provide €306 million in joint investment for 92 infrastructure projects across the archipelago from 2008 to 2012.

Details of the agreement were hammered out with Cristina Narbona, the former Environment Minister in the previous Socialist administration in Madrid, but the Economy Ministry has yet to give ...

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