ACCIONA has built two state-of-the-art facilities, in addition to another in the Canary Islands. Both of these areas have intensive farming and very little freshwater. “We put 50 years of water management experience to work in agriculture to ensure sustainability and profitability in addition to increasing productivity and product quality,” says Navarro. In Spain and, by extension, any country that tends to suffer water stress, it’s not so much about increasing the irrigated area—38% of the total—as it is increasing productivity per hectare. Since desalination plays an important but insufficient role, the company’s approach is to combine all possible management technologies to earn agriculture the suffix “5.0”. REUSE IS THE SUPREME ALTERNATIVE FOR REDUCING POLLUTION AND THE DEMAND FOR NATURAL SOURCES