Spain, water by boat to Barcelona
Barcelona was hit by the worst drought in the past 60 years, a first vessel delivered yesterday to about 19,000 cubic meters of water, a total of 6 boats provide water France and the Valencia region during the coming months.
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Spain was hit by a serious drought which spares no region, not even a generally well watered Catalonia but 3 years is a shortage of water in exceptional circumstances, to supply therefore Barcelona and its suburbs (5 million), the city decided to buy water, 1 tanker arrived yesterday.
Barcelona lack of water! To cope with the situation, the authorities decided to refuel tanker by the Catalan capital on 1 boat from Tarragona to 20,000 tons of water came, it was the beginning of rotations that will more vessels to Barcelona refuel, a total of 6 boats including 4 from Marseille will also relay from Thursday, they will make 63 trips each month and they provide the city 1660000 cubic meters of water per month, or 6% of the necessary local .
It is a measure to cope with the emergency should last 3 months and could be renewable and has 22 million; policies have fought for water from other regions (Valencia in particular) is better distributed, after many talks and discussions bitter, the government has settled and decided to build a pipeline reread Tarragona to Barcelona to deliver water from the Ebro River, a desalination plant will be operational to address to drought. The rains in recent days have helped lift the draconian measures imposed prohibiting watering and filling swimming pools, reserves now at 28% capacity, relieve the authorities who waved the specter of restrictions on consumption.
It is clear that the war of water due to illegal distribution above all, remains valid.
