Have recent rains helped with Spain’s ongoing severe drought?
Apr 3, 2024 · Spain on track for hottest first quarter on record: Have heavy rains helped with severe drought? People watch the Guadalquivir river swollen after the last rains under the roman bridge in...
Catalonia: State of emergency declared as region faces worst ever drought
Feb 1, 2024 · The Spanish region of Catalonia has declared a state of emergency as it faces its worst drought on record. From Thursday residents will be banned from washing their cars and filling up empty ...
Disappearing lakes, dead crops and trucked-in water: Drought ... - CNN
May 2, 2023 · Drought affects 60% of Spain’s countryside, and has destroyed crops across 3.5 million hectares (8.6 million acres), according to the Coordinator of Farmers’ and Ranchers’ Organizations ...
‘The country is becoming a desert’: Drought-struck Spain is …
May 13, 2023 · Spain is running out of water. After a long and painful drought, the country has been hit by an unusually early heat wave, evaporating even more of the "blue gold" it still has left in its...
Drought-stricken villages in Spain's northeast struggle to keep ...
Feb 2, 2024 · Spain’s northeast Catalonia is preparing to declare a drought emergency for the area of some six million people including the city of Barcelona. But thousands of people who live in villages and towns in the Catalan countryside have …
Spain’s Sánchez warns drought now a major national concern
Apr 20, 2023 · Spain's farms are reeling under prolonged below-average rainfall after a record hot 2022. Officials in Spain's northeast around Barcelona predict the area will enter a “drought emergency” by September. And wildfires are already coming earlier than usual with swathes of the countryside bone dry.
Drought in Spain Leaves Villagers Fearing a Drier Future - The …
Oct 22, 2023 · Spain has been blighted by a long-running drought, caused by record-high temperatures in 2022, a string of heat waves in 2023, and almost three years of reduced rainfall. Throughout the...
Spain's Catalonia region declares a drought emergency in 24 …
Aug 2, 2023 · Parts of Catalonia and the Andalusia region in southern Spain already adopted less-stringent limits on water use because of the drought. Spain’s Ecological Transition Ministry said Wednesday that reservoirs nationally were at 42% of their capacity.
Climate change: Catalonia in grip of worst drought in decades - BBC
In March, Spain's meteorological agency AEMET declared that the country as a whole "continues in a situation of meteorological drought which began over a year ago". Not all droughts are caused...
Drought in Spain empties reservoirs, forces limits on water use
AGULLANA, Spain, Aug 8 (Reuters) - Artur Duran holds his hand out by his waist to show the level of water he remembers two years ago at the Darnius Boadella reservoir in northeastern Spain....
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