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Spain's pain over lack of rain
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by Gemma Grace | September 3, 2008 at 03:49 pm
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Spanish regions have been falling out over who should get water and whether rivers should be diverted as the nation struggles with a lack of rain and prepares to treat sea water.
Click Here to watch the BBC news special report on Spain's water troubles.
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at 18:53 on September 4th, 2008
As many say here in Spain... a river is not a (n irrigation) ditch. It is not recommended to divert the course of rivers because it would reduce the current decanting of sediments, which would affect the state of our beaches (no sediments, no beaches!).
But many politicians are just using this case to win popularity amongst the people, who are not well informed.
For instance, instead planting irrigation crops in dry soil (which is what has been happening, increasing the demand of water) the Government should ban those planters because they are endangering the future of those regions.
at 18:54 on September 4th, 2008
Gemma Grace, I like this story. It's good stuff.