The University of the Balearic Islands’ campus is located 7.5 km
north-west of Palma city. The climate is typically Mediterranean,
with an annual rainfall of 529.5 mm and an average temperature of
17.6 C. The campus was constructed in 1980 and has an extension
of about 100 Ha, with a mixture of urbanization and rural landscape
of non irrigated tree crops. After a severe drought, the board
decided to build an onsite wastewater treatment plant to reclaim
water to be used for landscape watering and to indirectly
contribute to the groundwater recharge.