Litoclean has been developing reuse projects for years that represent a shift towards sustainable consumption.
World water crisis
The global situation is alarming, in Spain reservoirs are ten points below the average of the last decade and several communities have had to activate extraordinary restrictions due to the lack of water.
One of the most affected areas is Catalonia, which is experiencing the worst drought in its history, which has caused major restrictions on agricultural, industrial and urban irrigation in more than 200 municipalities, affecting 6 million Catalans.
But it is not the only region affected, according to a report by the National Drought Observatory of the Ministry of Ecological Transition, several points of the Ebro, Segura and Guadiana are on alert for chronic water shortages and have had to implement restrictions and extraordinary measures to deal with it.
The lack of rainfall is not only having consequences in Spain, Latin America is also suffering its ravages. Argentina, Uruguay and Chile are experiencing extreme drought and high temperatures that are causing crop losses and jeopardizing food security, access to water and the health of people and ecosystems. Mexico ‘s drought monitor indicates that more than half of the country’s municipalities have some level of drought, around 500 of them suffer from severe or extreme drought, and the high Andean areas of Peru will experience one of the worst droughts in the last fifty years by the end of 2022. This crisis in the management of water resources impacts the natural environment and those vulnerable low-income populations that are unable to meet their basic needs.
Faced with this global crisis situation, there is an urgent need to accelerate the change in water consumption and develop new forms of water use.
Integral water use
To help this transformation, Litoclean has for years included in its water treatment projects the recovery of this resource for reuse, a sustainable and environmentally responsible option that also reduces costs.
This process is designed specifically for each site, taking into account detailed site information and conducting pilot tests to investigate the case. In this way, the water is no longer a waste product to be discharged, but a resource to be used for a customer process or facility, such as the fire fighting network.
Thanks to this solution, Litoclean has recovered more than 1.5 million liters of water that have been returned to the cycle and not wasted, a contribution to the planet and to customers.
In addition, the company carries out different rehabilitation and remediation projects for sites contaminated by hydrocarbons, including the rehabilitation plan for coastal formations impacted by the crude oil spill in Peru in 2022, which is aimed at recovering elements or functions altered in the seawater of coastal marine ecosystems after exposure to negative environmental impacts.
The commitment to sustainability and the environment must be shared by institutions, citizens and companies and endorsed with policies and actions that address the challenge of water scarcity.
