{"id":418141,"date":"2025-02-06T17:17:34","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T16:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2025\/02\/06\/acque-reflue-bei-30-milioni-per-pescara\/"},"modified":"2025-02-06T17:51:47","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T16:51:47","slug":"wastewater-30-million-from-eib-for-proper-management-in-pescara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/02\/06\/wastewater-30-million-from-eib-for-proper-management-in-pescara\/","title":{"rendered":"Wastewater, 30 million from EIB for proper management in Pescara"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels – Goal: improve wastewater management and treatment in Pescara<\/strong>. The European Investment Bank (EIB) is guaranteeing \u20ac30 million<\/strong> for Azienda Comprensoriale Acquedottistica SpA (ACA, District Aqueduct Company), the company that provides integrated water services to some 450,000 people in the provinces of Pescara<\/span>, Chieti, and Teramo<\/span>. The financing consists of two instalments, and\u00a0the EIB is giving the go-ahead to the first, \u20ac20 million, for what is shaping up as the EIB’s first “Green Loan” <\/i>to an enterprise in Abruzzo<\/strong>. The deal is supported by InvestEU<\/a>, the European Union’s investment program heir to the old Juncker plan for strategic investments.<\/span><\/p>\n

“With this new agreement, we reaffirm our proximity to Italian utilities and our commitment to improving water infrastructure in Italy,” stresses Milena Messori, <\/b>head of the EIB office in Italy. “Thanks to InvestEU’s support, we are helping ACA Pescara<\/span> to reduce water losses, increase efficiency, and ensure a high-quality water service to citizens, even in the face of the challenges posed by climate change.”<\/span><\/p>\n

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The headquarters of the European Investment Bank (EIB) in Luxembourg [archive]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There is more. The EIB’s intervention also comes to the rescue of a country system already condemned for inefficiencies and delays in wastewater management. There are four different procedures open against Italy for the same reason. A conviction from the Court has already come in October 2021, the\u00a0last referral of the series dates back to June 2023<\/a>. To these is added a new referral to the court dated March 13, 2024<\/a>, reflecting an intervention, that of the EIB for wastewater, which acquires even greater significance. The \u20ac30 million for Pescara is allotted to support ACA’s water and wastewater investment program for 2024\u20132026 and thus put one part of the country in compliance with Europe.<\/span><\/p>\n

Italy largest recipient of EIB resources dedicated to the water sector <\/strong><\/h4>\n

The European Investment Bank recalls how Italy has been “the largest recipient of resources dedicated to the water sector over the past decade,” with financial\u00a0transactions signed for more than \u20ac4 billion<\/strong>. Specifically, the loan to ACA Pescara joins those recently announced with Iren<\/a> (\u20ac200 million), Valle Umbra Servizi<\/a> (\u20ac35million), ETRA<\/a> (\u20ac100 million), Pugliese Aqueduct<\/a> (\u20ac270 million), Como Water<\/a> (\u20ac50 million), Hera Group<\/a> (\u20ac460 million), ACEA<\/a> (\u20ac435 million), Acque<\/a> (\u20ac130 million) and CIIP<\/a> (\u20ac50 million).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the European Investment Bank, useful support also for Italy, which has pending procedures with the EU for irregularities in water management and treatment<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":418139,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25705,25727],"tags":[27359,27013,30386,30382,30383],"class_list":["post-418141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-in-the-spotlight","tag-eib-en","tag-european-bank-for-investment-en","tag-pescara-en","tag-waste-management-en","tag-net-idrica-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418141"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":418153,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418141\/revisions\/418153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}