Ebro Delta workers are searching for ‘equilibrium’ as water runs out. Drought in Spain, and especially in Catalonia, has seen the Ebro Delta suffer. Water scarcity has caused a 50 per cent cut in the area available for irrigating crops
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Ebro Delta workers are searching for ‘equilibrium’ as water runs out. Drought in Spain, and especially in Catalonia, has seen the Ebro Delta suffer. Water scarcity has caused a 50 per cent cut in the area available for irrigating crops
by Wagamaga
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Drought in Spain, and especially in Catalonia, has seen the Ebro Delta suffer. Water scarcity has caused a 50 per cent cut in the area available for irrigating crops.
All factions of the wetland community – including farmers, hunters, environmentalists – and the Catalonian government are having to cooperate and adapt as a result.
“We need to maintain an equilibrium,” Maria del Mar Catala, an IRTA researcher who has worked in the Delta for 35 years, tells Euronews Green.
“The minds of the farmers are changing, they are adapting. 15 years ago, no one wanted to talk about reducing water, now it’s something that’s happening.”
Yup, all of the Mediterranean coast is adapting. Murcia and Almería, both agricultural horsepowers, are adapting fast and often painfully too.