Recovery of Mar Menor

The Government, at the initiative of the Ministry for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge (MITECO), has approved a Royal Decree of direct subsidy to the municipalities around the Mar Menor with aid amounting to 20 million euros to carry out improvements in their respective sewerage networks and in the wastewater treatment of their population centres. 

The subsidies are part of the Framework of Actions to recover the Mar Menor (MAPMM) designed by the MITECO and the Recovery and Resilience Plan. Endowed with 484.4 million euros from 2021 to 2026, it is the largest scheme of actions and investments aimed at the environmental regeneration of a specific enclave in Spain. 

The municipalities benefiting from the subsidies are the eight that drain into the lagoon: San Javier, Los Alcázares, Cartagena, San Pedro del Pinatar, Fuente Álamo, Murcia, Torre Pacheco and La Unión. Together they have more than 180,000 registered inhabitants and their population almost doubles during the holiday season. All of them, to varying degrees, have significant problems in the daily management of their sewage networks, which increase on rainy days and, even more so, in episodes of heavy rainfall.