(ANSA) – ROME, AUGUST 10 – Spain’s water supply fell in a week to 39.2%, the lowest level since the great drought of 1995, the year in which severe restrictions on consumption were imposed that led to the collapse of ‘agriculture.
The greatest difficulties due to the lack of water are recorded in Galicia, Castile and León, Extremadura, Andalusia, Catalonia and Navarre. The Pais reports it.
Six communities have already suffered supply cuts and there are other areas on alert. Heat, increased demand and expanding irrigation compound the shortage.
Meanwhile, ecologists have asked the Spanish Ministry for Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge (Miteco) to “substantially” reduce irrigation, as the drought is due to “mismanagement and excessive water consumption” rather than a lack of rain. .
The environmental organization Ecologists in Action considers it “unacceptable” that access to drinking water is made difficult for the population while “spending heavily on a largely dedicated economic activity to export”, such as irrigation. Although the Spanish water basins are 20 percentage points below the average of the last 10 years, environmentalists – writes the Efe – recall that “last spring it rained 12% more than the average”. (HANDLE).
Source: Ansa
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