NERJA’S mayor Jose Alberto Armijo claims the government has brought good news about the town’s long-awaited sewage plant. According to Armijo, he has been assured that there will be a ‘definitive and irreversible’ drive to build the plant, which has a target completion date of 2015. Despite finally authorising the plant to go to tender [...]

THE Health Ministry has been forced into an embarrassing U-turn after ordering the closure of two of Andalucia’s best beaches in the heart of summer. The volte-face comes just days after the ministry ordered that El Carmen, in Barbate, and Los Castillejos, in Canos de Meca, shut after finding traces of sewage in the water. [...]

By Jon Clarke THE opposition party has joined demands for action over the Western Beach sewage problem, which it fears is getting worse. The GSLP/Liberal party insists a hotel development in La Linea could cause further pollution on the beach, which has already been indefinitely shut due to health issues. It insists that the sewage [...]

THE Green Party in Nerja has called an urgent demo to protest against the long delayed construction of a sewage plant. Under the slogan ‘Plant Now! Enough of the shit!’ Green Party activists will march through the town on January 15. Their campaign poster depicts excrement floating outside a posh hotel. Useful Link: http://www.facebook.com/losverdes.denerja

A CAMPAIGN has been launched to demand the urgent construction of a water treatment plant in the Guadalhorce valley. Spearheaded by the IU party, it is demanding an immediate end to the pouring of over 10,000 litres of untreated sewage into Guadalhorce River every year. By Wendy Williams Coordinator Miguel Esteban Martin, said: “The contamination [...]

HOW an incredible invention, the ‘Living Machine’, can turn sewage into crystal clear water in just four days, writes architect Liam Kellehar It might seem strange to talk about water recycling after the wettest winter in half a century, but I am afraid it is going to become a bigger and bigger issue. For the [...]

NERJA is being blamed for the poor water conditions along the Costa del Sol. A new group, the Integral Sanitation Forum, was formed to put pressure on towns that dump sewage both in the sea and inland into rivers. In particular, the group is extremely concerned with the black-spot of Nerja, which is the only [...]