2020 Sustainability Report |Aqualia’s horizon | 31 In 2020 Royal Decrees were also passed in Spain to pandemic. Guaranteeing the supply of basic services protect the vulnerable population, including: and establishing that the water supply may not be suspended for consumers catalogued as severely • Royal Decrees-Law 11/2020 of 31March, 26/2020 vulnerable or at risk of social exclusion, as defined of 7 July and 37-2020, of 22 December. These in articles 3 and 4 of Royal Decree 897/2017, adopted urgent measures to address situations of of 6 October. social and economic vulnerability caused by the Main projects and contracts in Spain in 2020 In Spain, Aqualia acquired the assets of the SWDP, irrigation a day. In its commitment to the integrated management ponds and distribution network for Mar de Alborán in of waste treatment, Aqualia initiated an experimental Almería. This infrastructure, after the investment work for pilot plant last year to define the features of the future upgrading and initial operation to be carried out in 2021, treatment plant. will enable the distribution of desalinated water to the cities of Almería and Níjar and to the irrigation communities in It was also awarded the management of the supply the area. At full capacity, it will enable the distribution of abstraction for approximately, 800,000 citizens in 39 20 Hm/year of water in a territory with high water stress,3 municipalities in Zaragoza, with the management contributing turnover of €15.9 Million/year. of hydraulic installations that supply an average of 3 Million m/day.3 5 It should also be mentioned that Aqualia was awarded the contract for the design, construction and operation of an Finally, there should be special mention for Aqualia's industrial effluent treatment plant at the Tarragona petro- integration into the territorial and legal structure, for the chemical estate, with a contract value of €35.6 million. contracts the company acquired in 2019, Agua y Gestión The plant will have a capacity of 1,800,000 litres/hr 24 hours C.I., S.A. 5 ACUAES (Sociedad Estado de Aguas de las Cuencas de España), depending on the Ministry of Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge awarded this concession to Aqualia.