The improvement of the drought situation and the restrictions on swimming pools
After the slight improvement in the drought situation in Catalonia and the lifting of restrictions, the Hospitality Association of Lloret de Mar (Selva) has decided to temporarily postpone the implementation of the mobile desalination plant that they had planned to install on the promenade to fill the pools this summer. This spring’s rains have increased water reserves and forecasts indicate that they could last until January 2025, which is why the union has announced that the start-up of the desalination plant will be postponed, at least, until January 2025. 2025, which is when new restrictions on water consumption could be imposed if the trend towards drought that has been ravaging Catalonia for three years continues.
The change of plans of the Gremi d’Hostaleria
Initially, the hoteliers had bought a private mobile desalination plant that they had to install at one end of the promenade from this June. This installation had to take water from the sea, remove the salt, and pour it into a tank so that tanker trucks could distribute it to the hotels and fill the swimming pools. Now, however, with the restrictions lifted, this project has been postponed sine die because hoteliers do not need to desalinize the water with the exceptional phase in force. From the Gremi d’Hostaleria de Lloret de Mar they assure that they will make very responsible use of water from the public network when refilling swimming pools this summer, but rule out putting the desalination plant into operation.
The search for a new location
If the desalination plant were to be put into operation from January 2025, the union has already advanced that the project will resume, but installing it in another point that does not generate as great a visual impact as it was scheduled to happen at one end of the Lloret promenade. Alternative locations are being studied, one of them is to install it near the sewage treatment plant in the municipality, located at the entrance on the C-63, before the water park. The device would treat up to 50,000 liters of sea water per hour.
