Infrastructure Modernization

In recent years, various modernization activities have been carried out for the Tribunal de las Aguas de la Vega de Valencia, subsidized by the Provincial Council of Valencia (Diputación de Valencia). These activities affect more than 3,500 hectares in full production, distributed between the intakes of the Azud de Quart, Tormos, Mislata, Mestalla, and the Azud del Repartiment.

Since 2019, modernization works on irrigation facilities located in the old Turia riverbed have been carried out along its more than 8-kilometer stretch. These actions range from clearing and cleaning the canal for geotechnical and topographical studies, a global automation project for all main gates located in the old Turia riverbed, to the automation of irrigation gates for various irrigation communities—a project with a high impact not only on the quality of life for farmers in the Vega de Valencia but also with a significant environmental impact.

These types of modernization activities have benefited more than 5,000 farmers working in the Huerta de Valencia. Modernizing the Tribunal’s facilities allows for improvements such as:

  • Providing constant flow rates to users at the scheduled time.
    Reducing manual labor in canal operations.
  • Providing an integrated water resource management system to coordinate water demand and allocation.

Thanks to this, its planning will enable benefits such as:

  • Better water management, allocation, and distribution across the different irrigation channels.
  • Improved operation times and remote control of activities.
  • Accurate water measurement in each channel, preventing issues in water distribution.
  • Maneuver response to breakdowns or emergencies…
  • Data logging for planning and anticipating future situations thanks to historical data.
Following the implementation of these new modernization practices at the Tribunal de las Aguas, benefits include significant water savings resulting from the installation of new automated gates, which are also managed via a mobile application.
This saved water (3,508,714.53 m3/year) is recirculated to the Albufera.

Not only that, but these actions are also having a high impact on the daily work of the ditch guards (guardas), who no longer need to perform certain tasks manually and can now do them automatically from a mobile application. This fact, to some extent, encourages the generational renewal that is so necessary for the agricultural sector.

Media outlets such as Las Provincias or Valencia Plaza have echoed the news.