The Segarra-Garrigues canal (Catalonia, Spain) is a hydraulic infrastructure designed to create 70,150 new hectares of irrigation in the regions of Noguera, Segarra, Pla d’Urgell, Urgell, Segrià and Garrigues, benefiting 17,000 irrigators from a seventy municipalities.
The works began in 2002, the first section of the canal was put into operation on July 5, 2009 but the works, which have involved an investment of 1.5 billion euros, were stopped until solve the delimitation of the Special Bird Protection Areas (ZEPA), where irrigation is restricted. The pumping station of the Rialb swamp and the Segarra-Garrigues canal are complete, and the works on the Albagés reservoir began on July 1, 2019.
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