The Balearic Government, through the Ministry of the Sea and Water Cycle, has published in the Official Gazette of the Balearic Islands (BOIB) the proposal of provisional resolution of the call for aid to compensate the extraordinary costs of transporting drinking water in tanker trucks to municipalities that during 2025 were forced to resort to this system to ensure water supply.
As reported by the Conselleria in a press release, the proposal includes a total amount of 528,285 euros, corresponding to expenses duly justified by the applicant municipalities, within a call endowed with a maximum of 700,000 euros, charged to the regional budget.
The purpose of these subsidies is to alleviate the additional economic cost borne by the municipalities to ensure a basic service to the population in exceptional drought situations, especially in those cases in which they do not have sufficient resources of their own or do not have an operational connection to the high voltage network.
The published resolution is of a provisional nature and now opens a hearing period of seven working days, during which the municipalities included may accept the aid proposal or present allegations, before the final resolution is approved.
In accordance with the regulatory bases, the call for proposals is processed on a non-competitive basis, which implies that the grants are awarded to all applications that meet the established requirements. However, the proposal also includes the non-granting of some applications for technical reasons, linked to compliance with the regulations in force.
