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What Will Spain Look Like When It Runs Out Of Water? Barcelona Is Giving Us A Glimpse
February 26th, 2024
Via The Guardian, commentary on what Spain may look like when it runs out of water? Walking through Barcelona these days, you can’t miss the signs and billboards picturing a red plastic bucket and the message “Water doesn’t fall from the sky” (l’aigua no cau del cel in Catalan). The ads are part of a campaign to get […]
Read more »Spain’s Catalonia Is Spending $2.6 Billion to Survive Without Rain
February 1st, 2024
Via Bloomberg, a report that Barcelona and surrounding areas are planning to end their dependency on rain water by 2030 as global warming forces the region to adapt to a dramatically different climate: Catalonia, home to Spain’s second-largest regional economy and popular tourist destination Barcelona, has a plan to live without rain by the end of this decade. […]
Read more »Billions of People Reply On Rapidly Declining Groundwater
January 26th, 2024
Via CNN, an article on a recent study showing that billions of people rely on a valuable underground resource that’s rapidly declining in certain areas: Many parts of the world are experiencing a rapid depletion in the subterranean reserves of water that billions of people rely on for drinking, irrigation and other uses, according to new research […]
Read more »Barcelona Warns That Drought Emergency Could Affect Household Supplies
January 11th, 2024
Via Smart Water Magazine, a report on Barcelona’s drought emergency: The Barcelona City Council in Spain has issued a cautionary statement, alerting that the drought emergency phase, looming over the Catalonia region in January due to insufficient rainfall, might impact residential water provisions should it escalate to the highest emergency level, reports Europapress. From January to November […]
Read more »Spain’s Drought Emergency Is Growing
January 2nd, 2024
Via The New European, an article on Spain’s growing drought emergency: As I walk through the main square in my local Barcelona neighbourhood, I see the central fountain has been fenced off. It hasn’t been working for a while, and now has been blocked off completely. But this situation is not unique, it’s the same […]
Read more »Innovative Water Solution Combats Spain’s Severe Drought
December 22nd, 2023
Via BNN, a look at some innovative water solutions combating Spain’s drought: Spain is grappling with a severe drought, particularly in regions such as Andalusia and Catalonia, where water reserves are languishing below 20%. In response to this crisis, a range of technologies are being deployed, including portable desalination units and systems that extract water […]
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