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Águas de Portugal (AdP Group) is a Portuguese state-owned company that operates in the water sector.. AdP Group companies provide services throughout all of mainland Portugal and across the fields of water supply and wastewater sanitation, namely the capture, treatment and distribution of water for public consumption and the collection, transport, treatment and disposal of urban and ...
Concerning drinking water, Portugal still does not comply with some of the parameters of the EU directive. For example, almost 50% of water supply zones do not comply as regards total coliforms, while 20% of the zones do not comply with the faecal coliforms parameter. The situation improved in 2004, the most recent year for which Portugal ...
In both the Portuguese and English versions of the lyrics, "it" is a stick, a stone, a sliver of glass, a scratch, a cliff, a knot in the wood, a fish, a pin, the end of the road, and many other things, although some specific references to Brazilian culture (festa da cumeeira, garrafa de cana), flora (peroba do campo), folklore and fauna (Matita Pereira) were intentionally omitted from the ...
The building is isolated in an urban area along Rua das Águas Férreas and a lane, between Rua da Boavista and a line of Metro do Porto, near the Lapa station/stop. [1] To the south is granite wall limiting the garden with grate, to the east the gate that accesses a two-story building, and to the north constructions of smaller stature. [1]
Aqueduct arches (65 m tall) over the Alcântara valley. Note the pointed shape of the arches. The aqueduct seen from the west. The Águas Livres Aqueduct (Portuguese: Aqueduto das Águas Livres, pronounced [ɐkɨˈðutu ðɐz ˈaɣwɐʒ ˈlivɾɨʃ], "Aqueduct of the Free Waters") is a historic aqueduct in the city of Lisbon, Portugal.
The District of Porto (Portuguese: Distrito do Porto ⓘ) is located on the north-west coast of Portugal. The district capital is the city of Porto , the second largest city in the country. It is bordered by the Aveiro and Viseu districts to the south, Braga district to the north and Vila Real district to the east.
Porto has several institutions of higher education, the largest one being the state-managed University of Porto (Universidade do Porto), which is the second largest Portuguese university, after the University of Lisbon, with approximately 28,000 students and considered one of the 100 best Universities in Europe. [93]
With the large influx of tourists, the need developed for improvements in the commercial sector, prompting renovation of the Rua do Comércio (Trade Street, old nickname for the street João Batista Azevedo). [29] In 2013 a group of companies led by Telefônica Vivo announced plans to make Águas de São Pedro the first digital city in the ...