Aigües de Manresa S.A. (AdM)

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Aigües de Manresa S.A. (AdM)

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Aigües de Manresa, SA is a municipal company that was founded in 1982 to provide the highest quality service to citizens. It is chaired by the mayor of Manresa and comprising five representatives from the council and six members of the various representative bodies.

However, the company has a functioning following the rules of legal corporations. Aigües de Manresa aims to supply management and supply of drinking water and drainage, sanitation and purification of sewage and other municipal Manresa environment and works to ensure quality service reinvesting the financial resources generated by the improvement and upgrading of its facilities and the preservation and development of the territory where it is located, to the promotion and organization of training and awareness in relation to the water cycle and the environment.

Some numbers from Aigües de Manresa:

Potabilisation plants: 8
Water storage equipment: 168
Length of water service (km): 1.320
Length of water sewers (km): 336
Wastewater treatment plants:11

Daily treated water: 32.022 m³

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