Madrid enjoys an excellent quality water.

Madrid, April 2012.- the city of Madrid enjoying a water of excellent quality thanks to the joint work done by the Ayuntamiento de Madrid through Madrid health along with the Canal de Isabel ll, the latter belonging to the community of Madrid.

Thus certify it more than 90% of the 2,000 samples taken by municipal technicians during 2011 in places of our city as sources, schools, sports centres or shopping malls and subsequently analyzed in the laboratory of public health in Madrid health. The remaining percentage only tabled by small details, already corrected, which in any case have been no risk to health.

This has been one of the aspects addressed leading experts in the field of water at local, regional and national level in ll Municipal day-technique of the world water day, which took place on March 22 at the Auditorium of the Faculty of pharmacy of the Complutense University of Madrid.

Responsible for Madrid health, Antonio Prieto has been in charge of inaugurating a day, in tune with the theme declared by the Organization of United Nations (UN): water and food safety ”, analyzed these two aspects in which Madrid health exercises municipal powers in public health with a clear vocation for commitment.

In addition to the presentation that was entrusted to the Executive Director of the Spanish Agency for food safety and nutrition (AESAN), Ana María Troncoso González, the day was four round tables that dealt with aspects such as the efficient use of water, the management of distribution networksthe quality of the water for consumption and the influence of indoor facilities in the quality of the water supply of Madrid.