This file photo taken on July 22, 2022 shows the La Fernandina dam near La Carolina, south-eastern Spain. – Faced with a historic drought and threatened by desertification, Spain is rethinking how it uses its water resources, which are used mainly to irrigate crops. The country’s reservoirs are at 40.4 percent of their capacity in August, 20 percentage points below the average over the last decade for this time of the year.
That has left the country’s reservoirs at 40.4 percent of their capacity in August, 20 percentage points below the average over the last decade for this time of the year. “The situation is dramatic,” said University of Jaen hydrology professor Rosario Jimenez, adding both underground aquifers and surface bodies of water were running low.
This has allowed Spain to increase the amount of irrigated land it has from 900,000 hectares to 3,400,000 hectares, according to the ecological transition ministry’s website, which calls the country’s water management system “an example of success”.The dams “had their use” but they have also encouraged the “overexploitation” of water and the decline in its quality by blocking the natural course of rivers, said Julio Barea, a water expert at Greenpeace Spain.
“We cannot be Europe’s vegetable garden” while “there are water shortages for the inhabitants,” she added.
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