Up to 52% of the treated water that is discharged into the sea after the purification process does not comply with the law in terms of its content in organic matter. Specifically, of the 10 treatment plants on the island, in four of them: the city of Ibiza, Sant Josep, sa Cala de Sant Vicent and Sant Joan, twice as many as in the previous year, the water was poorly treated. Due to the flow it generates, the Vila plant causes 99% of the poorly treated water of the island as a whole.

All the water that is discharged through the pipeline into the bay of Talamanca has a concentration of fecal matter above the regulations. In the case of the Sant Joan treatment plant, the percentage of poorly treated water is 85%, in Sant Josep it is 84% and in sa Cala it is 25%. These are the “most worrying” data of the sustainability report with data collected last year by the Ibiza Preservation Foundation which was presented this morning at the headquarters of the Consell de Ibiza.

“The management of water resources and treated water is extremely deficient on the island of Ibiza”

The first vice-president of the Consell, Mariano Juan, has highlighted that the data in the report show that “the management of water resources is extremely deficient on the island”. “This is what we should be most concerned about and, therefore, we should ask the manager of the purification network [the Balearic Ministry of the Environment] what is going on. Why is purification so bad on Ibiza?” questioned Juan, while recalling the repeated dumping of sewage in the torrent of sa Llavanera or Caló de s’Oli. “We must seriously analize the situation,” he added.

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