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Drought suffocates the countryside

Tenerife faces one of its worst summers due to lack of water: "All the alarms have gone off"

Livestock farmers, winegrowers, banana or 'potato' producers face with extreme concern the water emergency situation due to the lack of rain and, as they denounce, "due to poor water management" on this Canary Island.

"We have not had winter, we already suffer restrictions and we fear the worst for this summer," they say.

Comparison of satellite images taken one year apartEU/COPERNICUS/SENTINEL2