CARTADi

Digitalization of Water Cycle Management


Cartagena Digital Water (CARTADi) is the project presented by HIDROGEA, Gestión Integral de Aguas de Murcia, S.A, as concessionaire since January 1993 of the integral water cycle in the municipality of Cartagena, to participate in the Aid Program for improving water cycle efficiency, within the framework of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan.

CARTADi is the digital transformation that Hidrogea intends to carry out for the urban water cycle in the municipality of Cartagena and is leveraged on the extensive experience in managing these infrastructures; and on the innovation and digitalization implemented for years so that the governance of water resources is more efficient and sustainable in the municipal area of Cartagena.

The actions of the Cartagena Digital Water project (CARTADi) contribute to improving the state of water, the climate and the efficiency of water resources. These improvements will also contribute to modernizing and improving the provision of municipal services, adapting them to the current needs of the population and ensuring that the best technologies and means currently available are applied.

This ambitious project has a budget of more than 12.3 million euros and will be executed thanks to the aid from the first call for grants (2022) for digitalization projects of the Urban Water Cycle, within the framework of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan financed by the European Union NextGenerationEU.

CARTADi Fact Sheet 1st PERTE call

  • Priority Actions

    The Cartagena Digital Water project is defined by 7 action areas:

    1. Master Plan for Reuse of treated water at Mar Menor Sur WWTP and Cabezo Beaza WWTP
    2. Advanced Hydrogeology Management
    3. Advanced Operation of Water Supply Networks
    4. Remote reading of subscriber meters
    5. Advanced Operation of Sewerage Networks
    6. Advanced Operation of Treatment Plants
    7. Software for Infrastructure Management and Cybersecurity

     

    Based on these areas, 19 actions have been defined that are aligned with the objectives of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan, as well as the objectives of the Water Cycle Digitalization PERTE for the transformation of urban water management in Cartagena.

    • A1. Study of alternatives for the use of treated water at Mar Menor Sur WWTP and Cabezo Beaza WWTP and discharge point to Benipila ravine during intense rainfall episodes.
    • A2. Treated water reuse project Mar Menor Sur WWTP and Cabezo Beaza WWTP.
    • A3. Advanced Hydrogeology Management
    • A4. Expansion of sensorization and sectorization of the supply network.
    • A5. Implementation of customer meters with remote reading equipment.
    • A6. Quality control of effluent flowing through the sewerage network.
    • A7. Water level control in collectors.
    • A8. Performance optimization in pumping stations.
    • A9. Advanced aeration control solution in WWTPs.
    • A10. Improvement in influent control in WWTPs.
    • A11. Continuous control of the status of critical equipment in WWTPs.
    • A12. Improvement in effluent control in WWTPs.
    • A13. Sewerage network overflows to the environment
    • A14. Combined network overflows to stormwater network.
    • A15. Overflows from Wastewater Pumping Stations to the environment.
    • A16. Overflows from Wastewater Treatment Plants to the environment.
    • A17. Implementation of a Proactive Cybersecurity Operation and Maintenance Service in Industrial Control Systems OT within the scope of the Cartagena Operational Control Center, classified as Critical Infrastructure (LPIC).
    • A18. Development and deployment of a threat visualization system (infographics) in OT infrastructures.
    • A19. IT/OT NETWORK Segregation project in WWTPs.