
Eighteen years is a long wait for somebody to open the tap, which is the case of the Costa farmers and the Embalse de Rules. Patience has its limits, though.
If you have had a look at the Río Verde and Río Seco riverbeds in Almuñécar, you will have seen that the Junta finally got its reluctant finger out.

The Junta de Andalucía has released 65m euros for ‘urgent operations against adverse natural phenomenon.’ Around 28m euros of that will be end up as rural-infrastructure maintenance and 20m will go to clearing out the riverbeds of their excessive vegetation. Having seen what has happened further down the Andalusian coastline in Almería and further (Murcia)…
The Almuñécar fire service was called out to deal with putting out a fire in a palmtree plantation in the Río Seco area.
A 24-year-old man was arrested in Almuñécar last month for selling drugs in a cortijo that he was squatting in.