Technological Centre

March 2023

Today we received in our facilities the consortium of the project led by Depuración de Aguas del Mediterráneo to evaluate the results obtained and to establish the next steps to follow. So-called "emerging contaminants" (ECs) are certain chemical substances whose presence in water can pose a risk to the environment and human health. These substances include pharmaceuticals, hormones present in oral contraceptives, or drugs of abuse...

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The General Director of Environmental Quality, Sustainability and Climate Change visited our facilities yesterday to learn about the main R&D&I projects that we are developing in each of our study areas.   Yesterday we received the visit to our facilities of Sagrario Pérez, General Director of Environmental Quality, Sustainability and Climate Change of the Xunta de Galicia to study ways of collaboration for the development of initiatives...

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As a Technological Centre, we carry out many projects in areas such as nature-based solutions, water reuse, desalination, resource recovery or the detection of microplastics and emerging pollutants. One of our latest success stories is the LIFE Green Sewer research project through which we obtained recycled water suitable for agricultural irrigation at the Ferrol WWTP and which we will now test in Almendralejo (Extremadura). ...

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