The Assesseira Water Treatment Plant, in Tomar, the most important production plant of the supply system of Empresa das Águas Públicas de Lisboa (EPAL) – Lisbon Public Water Supply Corporation - received the visit of the President of the Republic, as part of the programme of the Route to Science.

Within the framework of clean technologies, EPAL presented the system of computerized remote control of water and the programme for reducing losses in water flows, whilst the National Water Institute (INAG) presented an approach towards the national system of flood monitoring and early warning.