The snow on the Sierra Nevada has gone, the reservoirs are half empty and we haven’t even begun the summer, and it’s not just locally, the whole of Spain is abnormally dry.

Every eight to ten years there is a very, very dry year in Mediterranean Spain and this year is shaping up to become that drought year.

To give you an idea, the Andalusian reservoirs are at 48.80% of their capacity for this time in April. 16 waterboards across the country are down to 55%. That’s 10% down on ten years ago and 15% down on five years ago.

Experts, however, do not believe that we will see a rerun of the early 90’s, when, for example, in the city of Sevilla in September 1992 the water supply to homes was cut between 02.00h and 06.00h every day.

Even so, farmers in Almuñécar have been spending most of this year so far lamenting the dropping water table with the consequent risk of seawater invading the Valle Rio Verde supply – there have even been plans to pump treated sewage water down into the well to keep the freshwater level up and the seawater at bay.

(News: Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia)