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Date Published: 17/11/2022

ARCHIVED - Andalucia reservoirs still running dry despite recent rain

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One of Andalucia’s main water storage facilities has dipped to just 18% of capacity

<span style='color:#780948'>ARCHIVED</span> - Andalucia reservoirs still running dry despite recent rain

Despite the recent storms that battered much of Spain during the week, the rains have done little to alleviate the drought situation in Andalucia, where the reservoirs have lost around 13 cubic hectometres of water in recent days. The stores have now been depleted to 21.4% and hold just 2,398 hectometres of their 11,167 capacity.

This is significantly lower than the same time last year and the region’s two main reservoirs, the Guadalquivir basin and the Andalusian Mediterranean Basin, are running dangerously low, with water levels of just 18.6% and 34.7%, respectively.

Data released on Wednesday November 16 by the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge show that the smaller facilities, such as Piedras in Huelva and Guadalete-Barbate in Cádiz, aren’t faring much better.

During the summer, as the country sizzled in heatwave after heatwave, the La Vinuela reservoir in Malaga hit an all-time low, dipping to just 11% of its overall limit. And at the height of the summer, seven communities across Spain were forced to implement water restrictions to alleviate the pressure including Andalucia, where the showers and foot baths were turned off on several beaches.

At a national level, the storms that raged further south have had a slightly more positive impact, increasing the level of the reservoirs by 91 cubic hectometres, rising the total capacity to 32.5%.

The reservoir of dammed water is currently at 18,249 cubic hectometres, a figure that is 35.47% below the average of the last ten years and that is 17.45% lower than the same time last year.

Also of interest: Why are the Mediterranean Sea and the Mar Menor changing colour?

Image: Pixabay

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