Politicians are given to presenting work projects, on site, with a ceremonial first-stone placing – and normally that’s it, with not much else happening on the project for months or even years to come. Let’s hope that this is not the case with the presentation of the Rules Reservoir pipe connection to the east coast of Granada.

“Still water serves nobody,” said the Head of the Environment Department of the Junta de Andalucia, Jose Juan Diaz Trillo, as he laid the symbolic first stone on this sizable engineering project to pipe water from the Guadalfeo valley to the coastal towns at the foot of the Contravesia.

The pipeline will guarantee water for both domestic and agricultural consumption for 15,000 people and 2,000 hectares of subtropical cultivation. The project conclusion date is foreseen as being in 18 months time and counts on a 2.9m euro investment from the Junta.

Towns that will receive water from Rules are: Carchuna-Calahonda, Gualchos, Castell de Ferro, Lujar, Rubite, Polopos-La Mamola, Albunol and Sorvilan.

(News: Eastern Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia)