The Government approved on 21 April, the Royal Decree Law of supply of water from the Ebro to Barcelona for the "circumstances of exceptional necessity" of the Barcelona metropolitan area. At that time, the five reservoirs that supply the accumulated Barcelona 122 cubic hectometres and prowled the technical level of a major emergency for the impounded water, fixed in 20%.
The same text provides for two assumptions on which the transfer is void. The first is that we do not give that "special need" in Catalonia. Today these five dams-Sau, Susqueda, La Baells, La Llosa del Cavallo and Sant Ponç-exceeded Hectometres 210 (34.4% of capacity, according to the Catalan Water Agency) and Aragon believes that extreme drought no longer exists and therefore the decree is irrelevant. The Government maintains the transfer. When conditions would be to cancel?
has rained more than it would provide the Ebro
In the last week of March, the Generalitat and Barcelona City Council urged the Government to build a trasvaseque sent to Barcelona hectometres 33 a month. According to them, this would be essential at least until the desalination plant in service in El Prat de Llobregat, scheduled for May-June 2009 and provide about 40 cubic hectometres a month, which would ensure the use of mouth (providing for domestic consumption needs.)
But in mid-April, the five reservoirs that supply Barcelona hectometres exceeded 165 and the Government of Aragon has been quick to warn the Ministry of Environment that the decree authorizing the transfer has become obsolete. With that amount of water stored, the Generalitat of Catalonia had lifted the emergency 2.
This is what happened about a month ago, and now that we have another month with rain, we say thanks.
Our wetlands are already 65% \u200b\u200b... As well said before, it has rained more than we would provide the Ebro
On the other hand, they are flooded, something that no one happy, but must be agreed that if we had been given water at the time that we needed urgent now neither they nor we would be flooded would still be in a slight drought ...
Fortunately, the dam of the photo (Sau) is back as 2 years ago ...
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