Drought in Spain

[le bon paysan]

Told they will have to cut livestock numbers

Worst drought ‘ever recorded’ hits Catalonia, sparking fears and ingenuity

Fountains have dried up while hotels impose a four-minute shower challenge as water runs dry.

www.aljazeera.com

 

[Still Farming]

May be Buying UK 's then?

 

[Barleymow]

Can't we send them some there's plenty spare here

 

[serf]

We've had their share that's why ...

 

[spin cycle]

Told they will have to cut livestock numbers

Worst drought ‘ever recorded’ hits Catalonia, sparking fears and ingenuity

Fountains have dried up while hotels impose a four-minute shower challenge as water runs dry.

www.aljazeera.com

blimey....puts the proverbial 'spanner" in their massive polytunnel and pig expansion

 

[Devil's advocate]

blimey....puts the proverbial 'spanner" in their massive polytunnel and pig expansion

Catlonia other end of the coutry.

Think Devon to Aberdeen.

 

[spin cycle]

Catlonia other end of the coutry.

Think Devon to Aberdeen.

oh I see....not the whole of Spain?....I read article and thought it intimated that 85% of water used was for ag?

 

[Iben]

@Spanish

 

[Devil's advocate]

oh I see....not the whole of Spain?....I read article and thought it intimated that 85% of water used was for ag?

The South seems to get serious flooding every October now, it certainly did this last Autumn. Then nowt the rest of the year.

 

[Kidds]

Maybe we could do a water for cucumbers swap/trade deal.

 

[Kidds]

Antonio Aretxabala, a hydrology expert at the University of Zaragoza, said Spain’s water crisis was caused by a lack of rain and over-use of water for agriculture, which only accounts for 2.3 percent of the country’s gross domestic product.

Ana Miquel, a retired hotel executive from Barcelona, collects water in her kitchen [Courtesy: Ana Miquel]
“We have a climate without rain for years and exorbitant use of water for agriculture. About 85 percent of water use is for agriculture. The rest is for human and industrial use,” he said in an interview with Al Jazeera.

“Spain is one of the driest parts of Europe, but it has one of the biggest hydraulic footprints in terms of the kind of products we export like tomatoes or other fruit.”

Aretxabala said humans had adjusted their behaviour to climate change, but agriculture had not changed fast enough.