Once the state of drought emergency has passed, the risk persists. In the Spanish Blue Community / Blue City Barcelona, the network Aigua és Vida (Water is life), a platform of social, neighborhood, ecological and solidarity associations for the good state of water bodies and public water management, comes up with proposals for the three planned scenarios: the optimistic, the average and the pessimistic, as the Catalan newsplatform Catalunya Metropolitana reports.

The level of water in Catalonia’s internal basins (the rivers that originate and flow into Catalan territory) is 34%. Surprisingly, we have already surpassed the worrying state of emergency (let’s remember that last spring the level was only 14%), but the risk remains. Reserves are just over 7% higher than a year ago and climatologists warn that these extreme situations will become more intense and very likely more frequent. On the other hand, the demand and consumption of water for various uses (tourism, urban, industrial, agricultural and domestic) is increasing. Nor can we ignore the fact that, at present, there are still two units of exploitation in emergency status and 8 in exceptional status in the internal basins of Catalonia.

The drought of 2008, the recent drought of 2023 and the climate forecasts warn us that we cannot make the same mistakes that we made in overcoming the previous drought of 2008. It is essential to act urgently and implement a series of measures to avoid the risk of water scarcity.

Read the full article (in Catalan language) and the proposals of Aigua és Vida here.

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