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Spain's reservoirs drier than normal, water restriction summer possible

Xinhua, April 3, 2017 Adjust font size:

Some regions of Spain could be facing a summer of water restrictions unless more rain falls during the spring after it was revealed on Monday that the country's reservoirs ended the winter at just 59.1 percent of their capacity.

The data from the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Food and the Environment, confirmed that water reserves were 14 percent below the average for the past five years, when reservoirs around 10 percent lower than the average for the last 10 years.

The Spanish State Meteorological Agency (AEMET) explained that the lower water levels were partly due to rainfall being 4 percent down on the average, with 381 liters per square meters in comparison to the norm of 397 liters.

While some regions such as Valencia and Murcia in the east of the country have suffered from flooding, rainfall in the north-west and north of Spain has been well below normal, with only 75 percent of the usual amount of water falling in the regions of Galicia, Asturias and much of Cantabria. Endit