For years, expert companies such as Litoclean have been developing reuse projects that represent a change towards sustainable consumption.
Expert companies
This year’s World Water Day comes in the midst of a serious water resources crisis that requires rethinking the use and consumption that has been made so far in all areas and betting on circular economy measures, such as water reuse and water recovery systems.
Expert companies, such as Litoclean, have for years been implementing projects that optimize resources in the industrial sector and promote commitment to Sustainable Development Goal 6 of the 2030 Agenda: ensuring availability of water and its sustainable management and sanitation for all.
World water crisis
The situation in Spain is alarming, 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, causing 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 cope.
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.
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 in this transformation, Litoclean has for years included in its water treatment projects, as well as in its advice to its customers, 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, water is no longer a waste product to be discharged, but a resource to be used for some process or installation of the client, such as the fire-fighting network or the cooling of equipment within its industrial process, among others.
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.
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.
