Alqueva: Edia ensures water booster to all irrigation areas.
“There are rules to follow”, advocates edia in a statement, which ensures the water booster “all neighboring perimeters”.
The reserve of water that exists today in Alqueva is enough for over two years without significant inflows and able to meet the agricultural needs and public supply in its area of ​​influence.
Contrary to what has been public, the Alqueva project has the capacity to meet ALL the water needs for agriculture in the region equipped by the system, 120 hectares currently, It is limited only by the ability of the adducts to different reservoirs, as it happens in any water distribution system.
In our house we have a tap with capacity to debit 1 cubic meter per hour, we do not want to fill a swimming pool with 100 cubic meters in two days. we need, not least, of 100 hours.
This is exactly what is happening with Alqueva. If any association that manages other recetoras Alqueva dam water needs 20, 30 or 40 million cubic meters, and it is known that the system is able to charge some of 7 million per month, then this volume of water must be sought to edia several months before.
The news that have come to public, particularly on the issue of alleged "breach of water supply" to the Bayou Odivelas dam, managed by the Association ABORO, They do not take into account the "timings" of the requests made to EDIA.
In reality ABORO asked the edia day 09 March, 37 million cubic meters to be supplied from May to September. A 19 April decided to bring forward the request asking the edia that the same volume, 37 million cubic meters, was placed in Lisboa until day 30 May.
Easy is to realize that in much less than half the time it will be impossible to fulfill what should be done in four or five months, and that EDIA realized the ABORO.
EDIA ensures enhanced supply of water to all irrigation areas adjoining alqueva, since the respective request is made with at least according to the flow rate in each case the system can guarantee.
Moreover, philosophy of regularization dams, as is the case of Maynooth, It serves just to store the water needed before the irrigation season start, thus decongesting the remaining network, that does not have these great damping reservoirs, at the time the largest agricultural consumption - from June to August.
If this management is respected, as in some 85 hectares which now effectively irrigate from Alqueva and managed by edia, then there is no reason to shocks.
