Agriculture is one of the fundamental axes of the economy of the southeast of Spain. This area has the highest concentration of greenhouses in Europe with more than 40,000 hectares of crops that provide all of Europe with fruit and vegetables.

Water scarcity is a problem that increasingly affects arid areas around the world. For this, strategies are being carried out to combat this issue. One of the highlights is the desalination of seawater, whose main value is that it is an inexhaustible resource.