Reservoirs lost 705 cubic meters this week, representing 1.3 percent of their total capacityData from the Ministry of Ecological Transition and Demographic Control show that the reservoirs currently hold 21,291 cubic hectometers, thus at 37.9 percent of their capacity.
Currently, the reservoirs store 10,638 cubic hectometers less than the decade’s average and just over 4,000 compared to the same period last year.
To find a figure below these figures, it is necessary to go back to 1995.. Specifically, in the same week of August 27, Spanish reservoirs did not accumulate 15,000 cubic meters of water, according to Ministry data collected by Europa Press.
Rains this week hit the Atlantic side and were scarce on the Mediterranean side, as the department led by Teresa Ribera explained. Manufactured in Albacete with a maximum of 14.2 mm (14.2 l/m2).
Thus, in eastern Cantabria the reserve is found at 69.9 percent; 60.4 percent in western Cantabria; 49.9 percent in Miño-Sil; 59.9 percent in Galicia Costa; to 81 percent in the Basque Country’s inland basins. Also, Tinto, Odiel and Piedras at 68.6 percent; Júcar, 57.3 percent, and Ebro, 48.5 percent.
Duration, eight watersheds hold less than half of their capacity allow. These are the reservoirs of the Duero basins at 40.6 percent; Tagus, with 39.5 percent; Guadiana, 25.3 percent; Guadalete-Barbate, 26.3 percent; Guadalquivir, 23.2 percent; 43.8 percent in the Andalusian Mediterranean basin; Segura is 39.2 percent and the inner basins of Catalonia 40.9 percent.
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Source: Informacion
