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Catalonia has moved this Tuesday from the alert phase to that of water exceptionality in the Ter-Llobregat system and the Fluvià- aquifer Muga. These supply the vast majority of the Catalan population, including the metropolitan area of Barcelona. The new measures affect agricultural and industrial use of water in 224 municipalities that total almost 6 million inhabitants6 million inhabitants a>, but they do not imply restrictions on mouth water. Teresa Jordà, Minister of Climate Action, Food and Rural Agenda, explained at a press conference that these measures are taken because of the "risk of shortages" that comes with approaching spring with a volume of , 11 months longer than that of 2008 , the most serious in Catalonia to date.
Jordà has stated that the Catalan Government is acting "in a forceful and planned manner" to face water reserves of 27% The exceptional phase is level 4 out of 5 in a drought context, and includes restrictions such as a 40% reduction in water for agricultural uses, 15% for industrial uses, the prohibition of watering WhatsApp Number List green areas or cleaning streets with drinking water, among other measures. In the domestic sphere, the maximum daily use limit becomes 230 liters per person. In recent months, the administration has confronted the water crisis with the desalination of seawater and the reactivation of drought wells.
Prohibited to fill private swimming pools or wash cars on public roads. The councilor has also announced a measure that she described as "technical": the emptying of the Sau reservoir. This will be done by increasing transfers from the Sau reservoir, in the province of Barcelona, to the adjacent Susqueda reservoir, in Girona. She explained that with very low levels, 17%, Sau's water runs the risk of coming into contact with the sludge at the bottom and spoiling. droughts are becoming more common and severe as a consequence of climate change , due, above all, to agriculture and livestock. intensive.water pollutionin some areas.
Jordà has stated that the Catalan Government is acting "in a forceful and planned manner" to face water reserves of 27% The exceptional phase is level 4 out of 5 in a drought context, and includes restrictions such as a 40% reduction in water for agricultural uses, 15% for industrial uses, the prohibition of watering WhatsApp Number List green areas or cleaning streets with drinking water, among other measures. In the domestic sphere, the maximum daily use limit becomes 230 liters per person. In recent months, the administration has confronted the water crisis with the desalination of seawater and the reactivation of drought wells.
Prohibited to fill private swimming pools or wash cars on public roads. The councilor has also announced a measure that she described as "technical": the emptying of the Sau reservoir. This will be done by increasing transfers from the Sau reservoir, in the province of Barcelona, to the adjacent Susqueda reservoir, in Girona. She explained that with very low levels, 17%, Sau's water runs the risk of coming into contact with the sludge at the bottom and spoiling. droughts are becoming more common and severe as a consequence of climate change , due, above all, to agriculture and livestock. intensive.water pollutionin some areas.