Rivers are supposed to flow into reservoirs for later use but this late spring, reservoirs are being emptied to keep rivers alive in the interior of Spain.
Tag Archive for reservoirs
Drought Worries
by Hugh MacArthur •
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.
Drownings 20% Up
by Hugh MacArthur •
Up to the 1st of August a total of 264 people had drowned in Spain; that’s 20% up on 2015, according to the Federación Española de Salvamento y Socorrismo.
Drowned Memories
by Duncan Inglis •
here’s something lugubrious about burial at sea, which is how you might describe what happened to two small pueblos in the Lecrin Valley when three dams were erected twenty odd years ago