Gerard Melgar Barcelona
Barcelona
Updated Thursday, March 7, 2024-11:53
Drought The Foment del Treball employers' association demands that water from the Ebro be brought to Barcelona due to the drought and that the Government allows hotels to fill their pools
Drought The Parliament asks that the Generalitat allow hotel pools to be filled with seawater due to the drought and not prohibit showers in gyms
Twelve municipalities in the province of
Girona
will be the first to access level 2 of the
drought
emergency phase decreed by the Generalitat a little over a month ago.
Towns in the
Alt Empordà
region such as
Figueres
(48,000 inhabitants) or
Roses
(20,000), which depend on the
Darnius Boadella reservoir
(currently at 11% of its capacity) for their supply, will have the most severe restrictions in the region, such as Limit on daily water consumption of
180 liters per person
.
This was announced this morning by the Government spokesperson,
Patrícia Plaja
, after the meeting of the interdepartmental drought commission, headed by the Catalan president,
Pere Aragonès , and in which the vice president
Laura Vilagrà
, the advisor for Climate Action,
participated.
,
David Mascort
, and the
councilors
Roger Torrent
(Business and Work),
Joan Ignasi Elena
(Interior) and
Manel Balcells
(Health).
The other ten municipalities that access the second phase of the emergency of the
Generalitat
's
Special Drought Plan
are Cabanes, Cadaqués, Castelló d'Empúries, Fortià, Llers, Riumors, Santa Llogaia d'Àlguema, Vilamalla, Vila-sacra and the Far d'Empordà.
The Catalan Executive has also authorized the use of
mobile private desalination plants
by economic sectors such as tourism (for example, hoteliers in
Lloret de Mar
) and has agreed to relax restrictions on the use of water in the primary sector to guarantee the survival of livestock and that no farmer has to abandon his activity due to drought.