Back in May 2020, Luis Babiano, director of the Spanish Blue Community aeopas – Asociación Española de Operadores Públicos de Abastecimiento y Saneamiento, wrote this article for the Spanish newspaper Diario de Sevilla:
Public water, first!
Public operators are taking preventative measures to avoid contagion, and we guarantee 100% a supply of quality drinking water to the entire population.
Water is essential to our lives. And it is even more so now to combat the spread of the coronavirus. The current pandemic highlights the need to manage water as a right.
In many Andalusian municipalities, behind the tap water we drink, wash our hands, use for laundry, or clean our homes, are the public water operators. They maintain a vast network of essential infrastructure to ensure that tap water continues to reach our homes, safe and clean, and can then be returned to nature in the necessary quality to protect our environment. These public operators are taking preventative measures to avoid infections, and we guarantee a 100% supply of quality drinking water to the entire population.
Read in Diario de Sevilla (Spanish) or in Google English
