A massive drought in Spain is forcing farmers to turn to water rationing, seawater desalination and recycling effluent from sewage treatment plants. Many harvests are at “serious risk” and reductions could be “drastic,” causing prices to skyrocket.
“We’ve registered 30 months with a lack of rain,” Xavier Duran i Ramírez, spokesperson for the Catalan Water Agency, told Yahoo News.
and that reductions could be "very drastic,” causing prices to skyrocket. Villagers are taking statues of Christ and the Virgin out of churches to carry them in processions in which residents pray for rain.“This is the worst period that we have had for the last 100 years,” Samuel Reyes, director of the Catalan Water Agency, said in April, normally a rainy month, which saw only a sprinkling of water this year.
But that won’t fix the problem, said Broekman. For one, with high energy costs, desalination plants, if relied on full-time, would “triple the price of water for consumers,” she said. And even though recycling wastewater is gaining popularity worldwide — in San Diego, Singapore and Israel, it’s even used as drinking water — she notes that water regeneration is also energy-intensive and threatens to further deplete water levels.
He knows farmers who are simply not planting this year, due to water scarcity. His own 7-acre farm is holding up thus far, he said, because he’s spent thousands of dollars adding organic material to the soil to increase water retention.
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