The
recovery of the metropolitan estuary is one of the key goals of the Strategic
Plan for the Revitalisation of Metropolitan Bilbao. The Nervion estuary
is the man axis of the conurbation and, as a result, it was heavily polluted
by the industrialisation process.
For this reason, the Bilbao Bizkaia Water Authority started the design of an Integral Clean-Up Plan in the 70s, which was directed to resolve the existing pollution in rivers, estuary and sea waters caused by industrial and household waste. First stages of the Plan were started to be implemented in 1981 and we can today see the effects in our environment of this Project due to be finalised in the first years on next century. As a result, projects to recover and regenerate riverside urban sites are under way in the framework of the revitalisation of Metropolitan Bilbao.
