Confederacion Hidrografica del Ebro

What Confederacion Hidrografica del Ebro does

Confederación Hidrográfica del Ebro (CHE) is a Spanish public autonomous body (organismo autónomo) attached to the Ministry for Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge, established on March 5, 1926 as the first Hydraulic Confederation in Spain. It holds the exclusive statutory mandate to manage water resources across the Ebro river basin — Spain's largest hydrographic basin at 85,534 km², representing 17% of peninsular territory and spanning nine autonomous communities, 18 provinces, approximately 1,700 municipalities, plus transboundary headwaters in Andorra and France. The organization serves roughly 3.2 million inhabitants within the basin (with an additional nearly 2 million reached through transfers to Tarragona and Bilbao), 924,424 hectares of irrigated agriculture, 353 hydroelectric facilities producing approximately 8,029 GWh annually (~27% of Spanish national production), and industrial users consuming 208 hm³/year.

The CHE operates an integrated technology and information platform built around three proprietary systems: SAIH (Automatic Hydrological Information System) for real-time water levels, flows, reservoir status, and snow coverage; SAICA (Automatic Water Quality Information System) for surface water quality monitoring; and Geoportal SITEbro, a georeferenced GIS for cartography, flood-zone mapping (SNCZI), and spatial visualization. A dedicated Water Quality Laboratory at Plaza Canal Imperial in Zaragoza performs physico-chemical and biological analyses. Its strategic planning portfolio includes the Plan Hidrológico del Ebro, Plan Especial de Sequía, Plan de Gestión del Riesgo de Inundación (PGRI), the Ebro Resilience Strategy, and the Estrategia GISDHE (Integral Sediment Management) with the Ebro Delta Observatory.

As a public agency, the CHE has no commercial pricing model; its operations are funded through Spanish government budgets, with EU co-financing (e.g., LIFE Programme) for specific resilience projects. Services such as water-use authorizations, navigation declarations, and discharge permits are administered through official procedures governed by Spanish water legislation, with citizen access via the MITECO Electronic Headquarters, common electronic registry, and in-person registry at its Zaragoza headquarters (Paseo Sagasta 24-26). Governance integrates nine autonomous communities and water user communities through collegiate bodies and the Water Council of the Basin.

Name

Confederacion Hidrografica del Ebro

Legal name

Confederación Hidrográfica del Ebro

Website

https://chebro.es

Company type

Public

Founded year

1926

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Confederación Hidrográfica del Ebro is Spain's public autonomous body managing the Ebro river basin (85,534 km²) since 1926, providing hydrological planning, real-time water and quality monitoring, flood risk management, and drought response for 3.2 million inhabitants across nine autonomous communities.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Water Resources Management

NAICS

Water Supply and Irrigation Systems (22131), Water Supply and Irrigation Systems (221310), Administration of Air and Water Resource and Solid Waste Management Programs (92411), Administration of Environmental Quality Programs (9241), Public Administration (92)

SIC

Water Supply (4941), Electric, Gas & Sanitary Services (4900), Forestry (800)

akta.pro primary industry

Water Resources Administration (Watersheds, Rivers, Groundwater) (BPAIAMAE)

akta.pro secondary industries

EIA/ESIA Documentation & Technical Studies (Air/Water/Noise/Traffic) (EUAHAAAC), Managed Aquifer Recharge (MAR) & Aquifer Storage and Recovery (ASR) Assessments (EUAHAFAL)

Keywords

• Hydrological basin management
• Water resource administration
• Flood risk management
• Drought management planning
• Water quality monitoring

Headquarters

HQ city

Zaragoza

HQ country

Spain

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Others

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

The Confederación Hidrográfica del Ebro is a Spanish public autonomous body that administers the hydrological resources of the Ebro river basin across 85,534 km² spanning nine autonomous communities and eighteen provinces. It plans and regulates water use, monitors water levels and quality, manages flood risk and drought emergencies, and operates reservoirs, hydraulic infrastructure, and forest heritage assets. Its core work is to allocate water among urban, agricultural, industrial and hydroelectric users while protecting the ecological status of water bodies and the Ebro Delta.

Product overview

Confederación Hidrográfica del Ebro operates a unified portfolio of water management products centered on the SAIH (hydrological monitoring) and SITEbro (geospatial) platforms, supplemented by SAICA (water quality monitoring), the Laboratory of Water Quality, and strategic planning products including the Hydrological Plan, Drought Plan, and Flood Risk Management Plan. The Ebro Resilience Strategy and GISDHE (Sediment Management Observatory) represent specialized environmental management tools. Navigation authorization services are delivered through MITECO's electronic headquarters. The organization does not offer commercial software products but provides public administrative services for basin management.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• SAIH - Automatic Hydrological Information System (Sistema Automático de Información Hidrológica)
• SAICA - Automatic Water Quality Information System (Sistema Automático de Información de Calidad de las Aguas)
• Geoportal SITEbro
• Ebro Basin Hydrological Plan (Plan Hidrológico del Ebro)
• Special Drought Plan (Plan Especial de Sequía)
• Flood Risk Management Plan (Plan de Gestión del Riesgo de Inundación, PGRI)
• Ebro Resilience Strategy
• GISDHE - Integral Sediment Management Strategy for the Ebro Delta (Gestión Integral de Sedimentos del Delta del Ebro)
• Water Quality Laboratory (Laboratorio de Calidad de Aguas)
• Navigation Responsible Declaration Service (Declaración Responsable de Navegación)

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core and major.

• Ministerio para la Transición Ecológica y el Reto Demográfico (MITERD)coreOthersThe Confederation is an autonomous organism attached to the Ministry for Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge, which exercises hierarchical oversight and coordination of basin management activities.
• Nine Autonomous CommunitiescoreOthersThe basin's territory spans nine autonomous communities: Cantabria, Castilla y León, Navarra, La Rioja, Aragón, Cataluña, País Vasco, and others, which participate in the basin's governance through collegiate bodies and the Water Council.
• Water User CommunitiescoreOthersUser communities participate in basin governance through collegiate bodies, with integration of representative organizations of social, environmental, and economic interests transforming water management participation.
• LIFE Programme (European Union)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerLIFE Ebro Resilience P1 project (LIFE20 ENV/ES/000327) implementing measures to improve flood risk management in the middle Ebro stretch while contributing to water body status and fluvial habitat improvement.

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Confederación Hidrográfica del Tajo: Manages the Tajo/Tagus basin under the same Spanish water administration framework as CHE. Shares hydrological planning, concessioning and monitoring functions and serves an analogous multi-autonomous-community governance model.
• Confederación Hidrográfica del Miño-Sil: Spanish confederation for the Miño-Sil basin, with international (Portugal) coordination. Closely comparable to CHE on transboundary basin management, hydropower oversight and EU-funded hydrological planning.
• Confederación Hidrográfica del Júcar: Manages the Júcar basin under the same autonomous-body framework as CHE. Direct peer in hydrological planning, water-quality monitoring and inter-regional coordination across Mediterranean-climate territory.
• Confederación Hidrográfica del Duero: Spanish sister confederation overseeing the Duero basin. Closely comparable scope (large river basin, multi-region, agricultural demand dominance), operating under the same MITERD-attached autonomous body structure as CHE.
• Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadiana: Spanish sister confederation managing the Guadiana basin. Comparable mandate including irrigation allocation, groundwater management and drought planning, with similar agricultural-water-demand profile to CHE.
• Confederación Hidrográfica del Segura: Spanish sister confederation for the Segura basin. Highly comparable on drought management, water scarcity governance and reuse planning, operating under identical legal and institutional architecture as CHE.
• Confederación Hidrográfica del Guadalquivir: Spanish sister hydrographic confederation managing the Guadalquivir basin. Identical legal form (organismo autónomo under MITERD), mandate and operating model, making it the closest institutional peer to CHE.
• Agence de l'eau Adour-Garonne: French basin agency whose territory shares headwaters with the Ebro (Garonne) and operates an analogous basin-level water-resource administration, levy/canon funding model and ecological-status mandate — directly comparable to CHE across the border.
• Confederación Hidrográfica del Cantábrico: Manages the northern Cantábrico basin with the same autonomous-body status under MITERD. Direct peer in coastal-basin hydrology, flood risk management and water-quality monitoring as performed by CHE.

Broad incumbents

• U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: Federal U.S. agency combining water-resource planning, flood-risk management, hydrological monitoring and reservoir operations at national scale. Broader in scope and mission than CHE but the closest international analogue for basin-level public water infrastructure stewardship.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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Investments

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