All winter we've faced an ever worsening drought with some reservoirs down to a 25% of their capacity but now the rains have come are we set to squander it?
The calima has coated homes, roads, streets, swimming pools… everything, with fine dust so town halls have announced plans to clean up. Some villages like Trévelez have called for economic aid in order to wash down their hitherto white, picturesque village – the whole village.
On an individual level homeowners are busily emptying their pools in order to refill them because the dust is so fine that it just washes straight through the filter and back into the pool.
All this rain that has helped to refill our reservoirs, a little at least, water our farmlands and bring the countryside alive… is going straight down the drains as thousand of hosepipes jet out water to wash down cars, terraces, roads, pedestrian streets, schools and so many other things.
So your pool has dust on the bottom; is it the end of the world? Your car’s dirty; can’t you wait and see if the next rainfall cleans it off a little? Because spring has not even begun, let alone a seemingly endless summer and we are going to desperately need this water.
I’m not say that you should clean nothing off, but that we should all at least be aware of what we are ‘splashing out.’
(Editorial/Opinion: Andalucia)
Totally agree, it’s bonkers with so little rainfall to have swimming pools, other than a municipal one, or golf courses