Vallarta's Water Future: Inside SEAPAL's 900-Million-Peso Plan to Secure Supply

Puerto Vallarta's water utility, SEAPAL, has laid out an ambitious plan to close the gap between how much water the city can produce and how much it needs on its busiest days. The project — estimated at around 900 million pesos across three phases — would build a new intake and treatment system where the Mascota and Ameca rivers meet. The need is straightforward. The current system produces about 1,342 liters of water per second, but peak demand already climbs to roughly 1,480 liters per second. The first phase is designed to add about 300 liters per second; completed in full, the three phases would add as much as 1,000 liters per second — enough, officials say, to serve the city for the next 50 years. Phase one is the immediate priority, with roughly 450 million pesos pledged by the Jalisco state government and more than 100 million from SEAPAL itself. That phase is built to meet projected demand through 2032. SEAPAL director Carlos Ruiz and Jalisco Governor Pablo Lemus have both backed the project. It is worth noting that much of Vallarta's day-to-day water trouble comes less from a lack of source water than from aging pipes and pumps, so expect this to be one piece of a longer modernization effort. For anyone living here — or buying property — water reliability is a quality-of-life issue, and a project this size means years of investment, construction, and the occasional service disruption along the way. This is a Navigating Vallarta retelling of reporting first published by Banderas News. Read the original article here: https://banderasnews.com/seapal-proposes-major-water-intake-project-to-secure-future-supply/