Andalusia begins to clear the drought. The Borrascas train, tragic with four dead behind it, has left as a positive note the water reserves of the region with A percentage greater than 55%. According to data from the Water Ministry consulted by … ABC since 2018 a similar storage situation was seen. Information about swamp reserves in 2017, a year earlier, showed the administration alarms when those reservations went down to that level.
Now a recovery is celebrated at that point after Four years of drought. Dry swamps almost completely have life again. The neighbors come in caravan, as a pilgrimage to see the full dams. The drought situation statement was made progressively, until the entire region ended up on alert.
The drought was realized depending on the situation of each basin. The first exploitation systems where drought was declared were Barbate in Cádiz and La Viñuela in Malaga In June 2021. The latter has been the swamp that has lost the most water. He was practically dry. In the four years since that statement it became a desert of cracked land and dead fish.
After those two systems, the drought was declared in the Gibraltar fielda place that has always enjoyed good health and even sold part of its remaining resources to the Costa del Sol, which has an endemic storage problem, weights to the expansion of Marbella’s desalination plant.
In the same October 2021 it entered into an exceptional situation Almanzora caveswhere there are claims for desalination and where the basin still has the reserves of its minimum swamps, waiting for necessary transfers from the Government of Spain. According to the Hidrosur Network, the swamp of this Almeria exploitation system is only 9.22% of its capacity.
In March 2022, the Western Sun, Beninar and Dalías Campo in Almería and Guadalhorce-Llimonero In Malaga. The Borrascas train in this system has not only caused the swamps to have to open gates. Those unwins caused floods during the October Dana, but also on this Borrascas train. The Guadalhorce took all its width and both occasions the Civil Guard had to be used thoroughly to carry out population rescues in the homes that were flooded.
He Guadalete He entered drought in October 2022. In the last week the river has caused eviction in Jerez de la Frontera due to the flood experienced. The swamps have recovered, just like Huelva and the Sierra of this province, which had been in drought from 2023. to the Guadalquivirthat the largest basin in Andalusia has recovered. The Borrascas train has made even suspicion of its passage through Córdoba and Seville, where defense walls had to be closed to avoid the risk of flooding in the capital.
The Guadalquivir basin has its storage above 50%. The situation is similar in all other exploitation systems. According to data from the Hidrosur network, the Andalusian Mediterranean Basins They are at 52%. They are the one that they understand from Malaga to Almería with all the swamps of Granada. Similarly, the Guadalete and Barbate basin, which is practically Cádiz, has 53% storage. The Huelva basins are the ones that have loaded their swamps the most being above 73%.
The average of all basins on Monday exceeded 55% and approached 60%. It is a fixed photo, since The Correntías continue to breathe water To the swamps and in the next few days the storage will continue to grow. And the situation is seen as positive from the Junta de Andalucía, which I expected at the end of this month to make decisions within the drought committees, knowing that the Borrascas train would notably load the water reserves of Andalusia.
Drought committees
The Andalusian Water Councilor Ramón Fernández-Pacheco, already pointed out that the different drought committees will meet on Tuesday to update their measures although, after the rains of recent weeks, it is expected that the Irrigation endowments and supply go “to improve”. “I think that these rains have come very well to everyone and the farmers have to notice,” said the advisor who pointed out that from the Junta de Andalucía he will listen mostly to scientists and technicians to make decisions about it.
Fernández-Pacheco recalled that the committee meetings were postponed before the Borrascas train and that they They have affected crops. “The agricultural regional offices such as the territorial delegations of the Junta de Andalucía are already deployed in the territory to take a fixed photo of the situation,” he added.
Given this, he showed his collaboration with the municipalities that could have verified the deterioration of rural roads that give access to agricultural farms. «We have much more water which we had last year to face the agricultural campaign and that is good news, ”concluded the Minister Fernández-Pacheco.
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