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9 maltatoday | SUNDAY • 14 APRIL 2019 NEWS www.landsauthority.org.mt/services/tendering Lands Authority St. Sebastian Street, Valletta Lands Authority, notifies that: Sealed tenders in respect of the following advertisements have to be dropped in the Tender Box at the Lands Authority, Auberge de Baviere, Valletta by 10.00 am on Thursday, 25th April, 2019. *Advert No. 43 Sale, tale quale and without its airspace of Garage No. 3, Triq Ir-Rebbiegħa, Qasam Hal Dmikki, Għaxaq, shown edged in red on plan P.D. 66_78_12_3. Tenders are to be accompanied by a Bid-Bond for an amount of €2,400 as stipulated in the tender conditions. Offers below the amount of twenty-four thousand Euros (€24,000) will not be considered. A fee of €10 will be charged for each copy of tender document. *Advert No. 44 Grant on a perpetual revisable emphyteusis of a Site in Triq Marija De Domenicis corner with Triq ir-Rand, Santa Lucija as shown edged in red on plan P.D. 30_80_A. Tenders are to be accompanied by a Bid-Bond for an amount of €1,000, as stipulated in the tender conditions. Offers below the amount of eighty Euros (€80) per annum will not be considered. A fee of €10 will be charged for each copy of tender document. *Advert No. 45 Lease tale quale in its present state including any latent defects of the Premises at Nos. 32,33 and 34, Spencer Hill, Marsa shown edged in red on plan P.D. 2018_0082. Tenders are to be accompanied by a Bid-Bond for an amount of €17,400 as stipulated in the tender conditions. Offers below the amount of thirteen thousand two hundred and sixty-five Euros (€13,265) per annum will not be considered. The fee of €100 will be charged for each copy of tender document. *Advert No. 47 Sale of a site in front of Premises at No. 25, Triq l-Arkati, Birkirkara, shown edged in red and marked letter 'A' on plan P.D. 2016_1163_1. This site is subject to existing servitudes in favour of adjacent property. Tenders are to be accompanied by a Bid-Bond for an amount of €1,000 as stipulated in the tender conditions. Offers below the amount of seven thousand and nine hundred Euros (€7,900) will not be considered. A fee of €10 will be charged for each copy of tender document. *Adverts appearing for the first time. Tenders should only be made only on the prescribed form, which, together with the relevant conditions and othr documents are obtainable from the Lands Authority, Auberge de Baviere, Valletta on any working day between 8:30 a.m. and 11:45 a.m. *Advert No. 46 Lease, for the remaining period of the present lease which ends on the 24th May, 2027, of the Bare Kiosk at Xatt Juan B. Azzopardo, Senglea, shown edged in red on plan P.D. 91A_80_A. Present tenant does not want to remain in the lease and an interested third party is ready to assume the remaining term of this lease. Tenders are to be accompanied by a Bid-Bond for the amount of €7,000 as stipulated in the tender conditions. Offers below the amount of five thousand Euro (€5,000) per annum will not be considered. This tender is subject to a right of first refusal. A fee of €50 will be charged for each copy of tender document. *Advert No. 48 Sale of a site up to a height of 4.25 metres from road level in front of Premises at No. 27, Triq l-Arkati Birkirkara as shown edged in red and marked letter 'B' on plan P.D. 2016_1163_1. This site is subject to existing servitudes in favour of adjacent property. Tenders are to be accompanied by a Bid-Bond for an amount of €1,000 as stipulated in the tender conditions. Offers below the amount of one thousand seven hundred Euros (€1,700) will not be considered. A fee af €10 will be charged for each copy of tender document. ISSUE OF TENDERS JAMES DEBONO MALTA'S projected tempera- ture and rainfall will signifi- cantly change by the end of the 21st century, as climate change threatens to aggravate the is- land's water resources. A study by University of Mal- ta scientists on future climate change impacts on Maltese ag- riculture says higher tempera- tures, and lower and more vari- able rainfall, will increase water demand for irrigated areas. The problem is aggravated by Malta's already existing scar- city of water supply through reservoirs and groundwater. By 2070, it is estimated that each hectare of agricultural land will require an extra 2,190 cubic metres of water each year – the equivalent of over one million bottles of two-litre mineral water bottles. This would amount to an extra six cubic metres of wa- ter each day, or 3,000 bottles of mineral water each day: 7.9 million cubic metres of fresh- water per annum. That would increase annual freshwater demand from 28 million cubic metres in 2010, to 36 million cubic metres in 2070 – an increase of 28%. The study – "Future Climate Change Impacts on Malta's Ag- riculture" – by Charles Galdes and Kimberly Vella from the Institute of Earth Systems, was published in an international publication issued by Springer. Increased demand for fresh water is expected to have criti- cal implications for future crop production. Climate change will aggravate water scarcity for Maltese agriculture Malta's water problem is aggravated by the existing scarcity of water supply through reservoirs and groundwater