Extinction Rebellion (XR) climate activists have intervened in the past few hours Up to ten golf courses in the provinces of Barcelona, Madrid, Valencia, Bizkaia and Navarra and on the island of Ibiza condemning the “waste” of water golf entails in the midst of one of the worst droughts in history.
Activists in the early hours of this morning They sealed the holes with concrete and said, “Warning: drought! “Given is shut down for climate justice” or “Water is a common good”, according to the activist group’s sources.
100,000 liters of water per day
They remembered that there was only one hole from the organization. a golf course swallows more than 100,000 liters of water per day They criticized the “irresponsibility and cynicism” of protecting the grass surrounding it (according to data from Ecologistas en Acción) and continuing to allow such elitist leisure while Spain dries up.
“437 golf courses are irrigated every day in Spain”, Activists stressed that the figure represents a higher consumption of water for “entertainment” enjoyed by only 0.6% of the population, than the populations of Madrid and Barcelona combined.
With action this Sunday, the Extinction or Rebellion collective urgently calls for democratic planning for water use, restricting lawn irrigation on golf courses.