On Tuesday, October twenty-first, health authorities confirmed that the tap water in San Javier and Los Alcázares is safe for human consumption. This follows extensive work conducted by the Taibilla Channels Consortium, which was necessary to restore normal water conditions after mud infiltrations caused by Storm Alice. Both municipalities join San Pedro del Pinatar, where a similar declaration was made hours earlier. These neighbourhoods are supplied by the El Mirador system, the most affected section of the canal. Residents in […]

The Torrevieja City Council has set the budget for twenty twenty-six at one hundred and eighty-seven point seven million euros, as announced by Mayor Eduardo Dolón and Councillor of Economy and Finance Domingo Paredes. This budget reflects an eleven per cent increase from the current year's budget of one hundred and sixty-eight million euros. The mayor described the budget as realistic and responsible, emphasising a commitment to urban and social transformation without raising taxes. The budget allocates over eighty-three million […]

Firefighters successfully extinguished a fire on Tuesday that erupted in the electrical box of a shop located in a commercial building on República Dominicana Street in Orihuela Costa. The alarm was raised at eight twenty-eight in the morning, and after approximately two hours of intervention, firefighters concluded their operations by ten twenty-three. Thankfully, there were no injuries or personal damage reported. The smoke had filled the entire premises, prompting the Torrevieja Fire Brigade not only to extinguish the blaze but […]

The Mar Menor lagoon has initiated its first oyster reef project to address pressing pollution issues, coinciding with warnings from scientists about dangerously low oxygen levels in the water. Following Storm Alice, researchers from the Spanish Institute of Oceanography and environmental group ANSE have commenced open-sea trials to evaluate the effectiveness of native flat oysters in filtering pollutants and enhancing water quality. Approximately fifty-five thousand young oysters, bred at the Murcia Oceanographic Centre, have been strategically placed on a reef […]