It hasn’t rained in southern Spain for months. To the north of Córdoba, a reservoir from which water companies draw recently dried up. Alternatives to the drinking water supply are becoming increasingly difficult to find. For example, a nearby lake is polluted by years of manure deposits from agriculture.
The population in the region is therefore warned in a Euronews video not to consume tap water. Instead, the water supplied by tanker should be used. “I had no idea how much water you need at home. Until we had to fill bottles and buy the water. It’s a lot of water,” says one resident in the video (see above).
In the south of Spain it has not rained for months, there is a drought. In April, record temperatures were reported in about 100 measuring stations in the southern European country. The highest value was 38.8 degrees on April 27 in Córdoba. This surpassed the previous high for April by 4.8 degrees.
Climate change has made record temperatures of around 40 degrees at the end of last month in Spain, Portugal, Morocco and Algeria “at least a hundred times more likely,” according to a report by the international research network World Weather Attribution (WWA). ) on Friday.
Consequences for restaurants and bakeries
Without climate change, such heat would have been “almost impossible.” Extreme temperatures in the region would rise faster than climate models predicted. In Spain, temperatures of over 30 degrees were already measured in March. To limit losses and damage, the scientists say, it is necessary to stop burning fossil fuels and adapt to a warmer, drier climate.
The current drought in southern Spain, for example, has consequences for restaurants and bakeries, which depend on clean water and can therefore only do their job to a limited extent. “We have to accept it and deal with it,” one resident said in the Euronews video. In the 21st century it is not “normal” to have to buy water. The drought also causes problems for farms and promotes the spread of forest fires.
Source: Krone
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