Although the Water Services Corporation already provides safe, high-quality water that meets all the relative WHO, EU and local health regulations, deposits of scale on water heater elements is a natural phenomenon when water with a naturally occurring calcium content is heated (especially above 60˚C). This is almost unavoidable given Malta’s geology of limestone and other minerals.
However, the various EU-funded projects, amounting to about €100 million, which the Water Services Corporation has begun, will improve Malta’s water supply even further.