Spain’s water reserves dwindled It has climbed as much as 37 percent this week, despite the torrential rains accumulating as a result of the isolated depression in the high levels of the atmosphere (DANA) that has affected much of the region since last Friday. the accumulated water has not yet collected in the reservoirs.
Therefore, currently reservoirs 20,763 cubic meters of storage After losing 319 cubic hectometers last week, which represents 0.6 percent of the reserve’s total capacity, according to the Ministry of Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenges.
MITECO explains at the end of the weekly bulletin that DANA’s precipitation contributions have not yet made themselves felt in the reserves, given that water volumes are increasing. Increasing water reserves in the soil and through channels to reservoirs. The most precipitation was collected in Tortosa (Tarragona), where 156.8 liters of precipitation per square meter accumulated.
By region, the reserve is 83.6 percent in Eastern Cantabrian; 82 percent in western Cantabria; 62.6 percent in Miño-Sil; 60.4 percent, Costa Galicia; 71.4% are the Basque Country’s inland basins and 59.8% are Tinto, Odiel and Piedras.
Basins in poor condition
However, large river basins such as Duero, which is 45.6 percent, are less than half of their total capacity; Tagus with 47.4%; Guadiana with 24.2 percent; Guadalete-Barbate with 16.8 percent; Guadalquivir 19.3 percent; Andalusian Mediterranean basin with 26 percent; Segura with 26.1 percent; Júcar to 47.6 percent; The Ebro with 36.7 percent and the inner basins of Catalonia with 24.1 percent.
The figures show that during this period The reserve is 28.43 percent below the average of the last ten years. despite having 5.25 percent more water than on the same dates last year.
It will improve but very little
Following the adoption of DANA, Greenpeace water spokesperson Julio Barea said this Tuesday: Collected torrential rains “can only slightly improve and only slightly increase soil moisture in certain areas”, however, they are not often used to fill reservoirs because they are too “punctual and local”.
That’s why he regretted DANAs cause ‘more harm than good’There was unfortunate human casualties and serious damage to homes and infrastructure. For this reason, the NGO warns that Spain will be exposed to more and more adverse climate events and the “consequent damage they will cause”.
Like this, NGO requests a plan to reduce irrigated area so that new projects with high water demand are not allowed in areas with historical supply problems; improving control of illegal water use; exclude the construction of new hydraulic infrastructures; limiting desalination plants to exceptional circumstances and not approving concessions or new permits for intensive livestock farms, as well as approving a roadmap for the transition to agroecology by 2030.