Diputación lanza Digraqua para reducir pérdidas

Water networks are the kind of infrastructure people only notice when they fail. But that is exactly the point of Digraqua — catch the problem before a village loses water, money, or pressure. On May 3, the Diputación de Granada said it had launched the first phase of the project, aimed at cutting losses and improving service across 61 municipalities that together cover about 130,450 residents. It is a digitalization story, basically, but the real stakes are very physical — fewer leaks, better monitoring, and less water disappearing inside old rural systems. (europapress.es) ### What is Digraqua, exactly? Digraqua is Granada province’s water-digitalization project for the urban water cycle — supply, control, and management. The idea is to give smaller municipalities tools that larger systems already have(europapress.es)cycle digitalization and is funded through NextGenerationEU money, local contributions, and provincial resources. (dipgra.es) ### Why are small towns the focus? Because Granada’s water map is uneven. In the province’s more urbanized areas, water management is more centralized and professionalized. But in (dipgra.es)nicipalities rely on groundwater catchments and operate with limited budgets and staff. That is the gap Digraqua is trying to close. (dipgra.es) ### What changed this week? The concrete news is that the first phase is now underway. The Diputación framed it as the start of a rollout that will directly affect 61 municipalitie(dipgra.es) across towns that usually do not have the same tools as bigger cities. (europapress.es) ### What does the first phase actually buy? One early piece is Actuación A12, with an investment of 63.897,48 euros. That money goes to specialized equipment for detecting leaks and fraud in the network. Fraud here means unregistered(europapress.es)er is not just an engineering issue. It is also a budget issue. (europapress.es) ### Which towns get that first benefit? The first A12 action directly names 15 municipalities: Agrón, Beas de Granada, Benalúa de las Villas, Cúllar, Dehesas de Guadix, Galera, Güéjar Sierra, Huétor Santillán, Jayena, La Malahá, Mona(europapress.es)uipment tied to specific places. (infocostatropical.com) ### Why does “digitalization” matter for water? Because you cannot fix what you cannot measure. Digraqua is supposed to help municipalities calculate indicators like non-revenue water, network efficiency, and the structural leakage index. Those metrics tell an operator whether water is v(infocostatropical.com)help towns meet the technical and sanitary requirements set by Spain’s Real Decreto 3/2023 on drinking water control and supply. (europapress.es) ### So what is the bigger significance? This is one local project inside a much larger national push to digitize water management. Spain’s PERTE for the water cycle is built around the idea that sensors, meters, data systems, and rea(europapress.es)atters because rural systems are usually where modernization arrives last. (prtr.miteco.gob.es) ### Bottom line Digraqua is not flashy. It is pipes, meters, and missing water. But that is why it matters — Granada is trying to bring small-town water networks closer to big-city standards before the next failure makes the problem impossible to ignore. (europapress.es)-20260503122750.html))