The water scarcity issue in Spain, especially in Catalonia and Andalusia, is a pressing concern. This documentary sheds light on a critical problem we all must address. Thank you for bringing awareness to this important issue.
there are so many solutions but the guys in charge here are clueless. You don't think countries like Singapore struggle with water scarcity? They have desalination plants, they use more economical agricultural practices, they adapted to the changes around them instead of just complaining and blaming.
@@mmaidofsteel ok genius. We are the country with the most desalination plants per capita, and our agriculture is one of the most water-efficient in the world.
Th water shortage in Spain is horrible. I live in Granada which in the south just like Almería and Malaga. This region is fairly lucky as it’s where the highest peak of Spain is (Sierra Nevada) which supplies it with fresh water. However you can clearly see the level of nearby reservoirs drastically dropping and never reaching the same level like in the past. The majority of the people don’t seem to care as they’re used to the heat and having water running from the tap. This year the local council put out some posters to encourage people to spend maximum 4 minutes under the shower but other than that there is not much being done. Agriculture is clearly the main culprit here but I guess as long as it makes so much money for the country not much will be done. It’s really sad and depressing 😢
If we think in agriculture in general, soy and corn are the big consumption. I don't know much about the reality in Spain, but you can imagine how much water we use in Brazil to grow our crops and to feed livestock with those plants.
@@harukrentz435 well, rice uses a lot of water too, in Brazil we have huge amounts of rain that drown the fields, but in volume the corn and soy beans are much more common than rice fields around here.
I was in Donana National Park (southern Andalusia) last week it was so dry. The usual autumn rains hadn't happened and a lot of the lagoons were dry. It was 26C in mid-November without a cloud in the sky. It was quite sad.
Doñana is plagued by fruit and rice growers who illegally abstract water. There is also the issue of Matalascañas resort. Both issues have threatened Doñana with losing it's status as a world heritage site. Outside Doñana the rest of Andalucia is completely covered in olive trees, the owners of which recieve subsidies, with bare ploughed ground beneath, creating topsoil loss and massive gullies whenever it rains. The problem of water scarcity in Andalucia is doomed to get worse.
I am born in poor family my mother since I know my self always teach me to using only what needs. Like no waisting the water, electricity, food. Because we short of money every day and because it’s just as simple that’s how normally we should be thinking about waisting. Now I am living privilege life but for me it’s still very important and normal to teaching my son how we can save and not wasting. He is 6 years old he switch the light in rooms right after he’s moved same the water when showering. We are dress up if we are cold nor heating only for night time. Only drinking tap water I don’t buy bottled water with the food if he not finished he says will be finish later or if I buy him a pizza and don’t finish he knows I am not gonna buy him for a while only if he surely knows that he can finish them all.
We also taught our children these things even thou in a country with no water issues, it's about looking after this planet and thinking of future generations.
Spain probably can't keep growing so much vegetables for whole Europe. Or maybe they can if more dry Israel manage to do so, it's also about waste water management.
Exactly. The never speak against the large corporations using the most water. They want to make silly decision like banning airbnbs and blaming tourist. Why is Catalonia not investing more in desalinization?
What you say is true but keep in mind that they showed 2 cities in Spain with a clear evidence that the problem are not big corporations. It would be nice to see the problem as a whole (Spain) then they will have to target the big guys for sure (in the same way that they have showed it in Germany with agriculture and Bayer, etc)
@@Originalman144Tourists/colonizors always denying their resplnsibility in ruining their favourite resort, my country. 'Its their rulers'. 'Its their economic system'. Might be, we know who is complicit. But this does not make you any less compicit or responsible.
I remember when the Bond movie came out with this villain that user water as his main source of control and power. Felt a bit farfetched back then. But now with all these stories about water scarcity I feel the situation is just worsening to a degree that is very discouraging😢
Rune, Which 007 movie is its i'd wanna know. Water scarcity is very real. Also Ich meine es Ernst . i have always though the problem was multifaceted. I could never understand why the onus is put on us to use less plastic and cut severely on water usage when the bigger consumers of water are all those firearms that the NO., SE, UK , US and the likes sell to warn torn nations. All those billions in revenue we are making off people we actively participate in the demise of .and we are not even counting the polluted river beds and seas .
The water is not less in the atmosphere, is probably more due to more evaporation. The problem is it rains completely unbalanced - too much in some area and times, and very little in others. And we have not good enough water storing solutions. Stay local and save airplane fuel, live naturally, reduce global heating up!
Yeap, exactly. Here in Switzerland it's been raining for 10 days straight and will for 3 more.... Pretty wet. We can build a water pipeline to Spain but it won't be as cheap as oil... Guess we are a Ressource rich nation now. 😅
Amazing documentary as always ❤.Thank you for highlighting such grave problems faced by humanity all around the world.Water scarcity is already a reality in many parts of the world and it will only get worse from here on out.The next wars will definitely be fought for water.
Funny you'd say that, because where I am in Switzerland it's been raining for the last 10 days straight and will do so for another 3 days. That's two straight weeks of torrential downpour. Guess I go into the water business soon... 😅
Why not use seawater for the pools ? You don't have to drink it, it only needs to be unpoluted. Using fresh drinkwater for the pools seems not smart. Better salt seawater and then a very short cold shower then ten thousands of fresh water into the swimming pool spoiled.
Northern Europe diverts hundreds of Megawatts from the cold and moist prevailing currents while Southern Europe burns in draught. I am wondering: IS THERE A CONNECTION?
Planting Trees is a quick-fix but superficial solutions to water crisis, instead Monoculture & Mass plantation drive will exacerbate the water shortages if not done scientifically. Naturally growing shrubs, dry deciduous forests & native plants play an important role to replenishing d ground water table. Some species of trees consume excess ground water can do more damage to ecology.
All the problems we have were all very clearly forecasted many years ago. What we're receiving now is exactly as predicted if not worse... and if you think things are bad now, wait and see what's about to come.
The same thing happens in California and we were under severe water restrictions up to last winter . The water situation was beyond critical but last November the sky’s opened and the amount of rain and snowfall was massive with serious consequences. . Spain needs a good soaking.
Catalonia is not the California of Europe albeit half of the world is pushing hard to project it. What we need is no tourism and rich colonizors accelerating gentrification and pushing the locals away, including old ladies who can't pay what the media german oblivious expat is paying .
I'm on the 17th minute, let's be serious, many problems could be overcome. The desertification could be halted, minimalized, or reversed by the smart planting of succulents and other drought-resistant plants. The greenhouses could be rebuilt into more sustainable buildings made from glass and other recyclable materials, drip irrigation and maybe changing the growing production to saltwater-tolerant plants. And don't forget about more permaculture approaches, creating artificial oases and such. The water scarcity could be overcome by the widespread building of water reservoirs, better sewage treatment systems, adding desalination plants, etc.
Every Illegal well overlooked subsidizes agriculture. It's up to the tourism industry and the cities to get politicians that will regulate agriculture, or agriculture will strangle both industries.
In Spain, about 84% of the water used in agriculture is for crops, with 66% of the cultivated area dedicated to producing feed for livestock. Additionally, livestock in Spain consumes around 48,000 million cubic meters of water annually, an amount comparable to what all Spanish households would use in over twenty years source: tercerainformacion DW always ignoring animal agriculture and always always grasp at straws. Animal agriculture is an extremely inefficient industry taking 80% of the world's agricultural land, a lot of water and yet only provides 18% of the world's calories. Not to mention that animal agriculture emits more greenhouse gases than the entirely transportation system COMBINED, yes, including planes.
Man, if pools and golf courses are wasteful antagonists to be featured in a documentary then you guys need to get out to the Colorado river basin. As mentioned, Las Vegas and Phoenix are doing some interesting things with water conservation, but as far as I know, that situation is still about as backwards as Chile's. States get allocated more water than the system has and water starved farmers work with a use-it-or-lose-it system so if they try to conserve water, it means they'll get less to use next year. So now the river usually doesn't empty into the sea and farmers grow all kinds of crazy crops that can't withstand any drought because no politician wants to be the bad guy and tell their constituents "No water for you."
Imagine having to walk 5 miles for your drinking water everyday. Whining about not having water for a swimming pool when some people don't even have running water to hand. People are so self-absorbed.
Every one should be careful how much MEAT they eating , i changed my diet not because is a fason etc cause this is madnes how much water wasted to eat 1kg meat. Yeah the problem is people do not care until the last second and then would be LATE😢
Best way to save water in any tourists site: DO NOT TRAVEL THERE. Flight to the tourist site is a huge emission maker. And being in a hotel with showers, air conditioners, pools, huge sewage/waste problems and so on is making things even worse.
@@LiquidShivaz Me? Yup. Of course we need other transportation too. But having just huge emissions while having "fun" is a big no for me. I don't want to be heating our planet with emissions that can be avoided. Choosing train travel to the nearer holiday locations is much better choice. Also why would you like to end up in the middle of the drought, wildfire and worsening the local water scarcity? That is just insane choice that many tourist makes currently. And then whines about it.
Como es posible tener ya estas señales y no hacer nada? Seguimos persiguiendo el dinero y desperdiciando agua y destruyendo bosques, selvas y otros recursos cuando al final ningún dinero podrá comprar agua cuando ya no haya. Cuando aprenderemos que el dinero no se come? Increíble que los animales tengan mas sentido común que nosotros ya que ellos solo consumen lo que necesitan sin acaparar como el hombre.
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It’s time WE ALL stepped up , but u keep driving your ford truck, and golfing at your fav club and swimming in your “ pool” lol EVERYONE IS THE PROBLEM my friend
We went up to Ronda when we visited Fuengirola. It was so much hotter up in the hills, about 38° C, unbearable for me. You need more water to keep cool, showers, drinking water, gardens, pools
It's lovely up there . I lived in Fuengirola for years before my darling husband died & I moved up North. When back down there recently all the beach showers were turned off. They are due to have a few days rain next week
No problem with water in the North of Spain …. Just completed 800miles cycling on 2 Caminos and it rained a lot. Yes I accept that the Mediterranean is a lot drier however you painted a picture of the entire Spain being dry.
That usage of water for golf is abhorrent and then you see them trying to make it better by saying they are using recycled water. Golf should simply not existe at all.
Things need to change across the board. Geoff Lawton has an incredible project in Jordan called Greening the Desert. So many lessons could be learnt nust from him and there are so many more ways to reduce our water consumption. We must demand our governments to do better chamgong regulations and monitoring!
People please don't travel to Spain in the summer! I travel to Spain every year but never in the summer time. Middle of the winter some day in Barcelona is still nice and warm. Some days it rains. In the spring the weather is nicest. In the summer it's much too hot. I like 30 degree celsius going to the beach. Not 40. And why woud I leave Finland in the summer when it's finally nice and warm here. It makes sense for me to travel to Spain in the winter to get away from the cold and dark.
6:20 This is incorrect, the numbers instead of names at the doorbell do not mean that these flats are Airbnb. It is like that on all Barcelona on all buildings. If you find a doorbell with names, it's the exception to the rule.
I’m going to Cuba in 7 days , they have a shortage of food, alcohol, all staples like flour ( so no bread ) I never complain because as hard as it for us tourists it’s 100 times worse for locals . It’s a good wake up call of things to come . I’m fine with potable water and less food, it’s good for me
@@DG-ie5ip I said they have water ( guess u missed that and yeah as a North American I eat too much , imbibe too often , so yea overall drinking lots of water walking a beautiful unspoiled beach is a lot better than pigs at the trough during feeding time and drinking my face off… a little bump of reality I would otherwise not get up close and personal, I’m not a really all inclusive kinda brat stealing food and water from locals just cos I have 1200.00 bucks BHAHAHA
Bring a bunch of small travel toothpaste, toothbrush, and feminine tampons. You can trade this stuff for a supply of rum for your trip or give it away to the hotel or bnb staff. You will be greatly thanked. These things can be hard to find in Cuba.
Water is life..My country is blessed with continuous rain every year that overfilled our dams. We have hundreds of natural waterfalls and water springs, lakes from volcanoes... Spain's dams is almost bone dry.
Wow that wonderfull botanical garden in the open in Almeria is magnifficent, we should all learn from it. I really take care to plant plants usefull for animals and polinators.
The guy who said ''there's nothing sadder than a fountain without water'' I would say there's nothing sadder than people going short of water just because of some moaning tourists who can only waste it ! Gaz UK
Where I used to live in South Spain I used to get frustrated with holiday makers not turning off the shower by the pool . Would tell them to go stop wasting water
It's not happening all over the world. It's a propaganda to blame fellow citizens and neighbors about their consumption and never blame the large corporations or people buying up the water rights and land.
Dear Spaniards, a simple solution: increase the price per m3 of water, as much for land owners (agricultural industries) as for real estate owners. The price is a message, it will push buyers, producers to become inventive again, to create new solutions, starting FROM THE PRIVATE SECTOR.
@@lenkacoyne420 it’s actually quite simple compared to other human accomplishments. Are you suggesting they are too lazy and do not have the work ethic?
As if I would want to stress about the length of my shower when I pay a lot to stay in a hotel. Meanwhile big corporations and especially those huge agricultural farms that are growing avocados and what not in the South of Spain are wasting water like crazy, but yes blame the individual. Also: The doorbells always have numbers and not names, it doesn't mean it is an airbnb..
The most selfish and unconsiderate comment towars locals I've seen, but not really a surprise. Tourists/colonizors always denying their resplnsibility in ruining their favourite resort, my country. 'Its their rulers'. 'Its their economic system'. Might be, we know who is complicit. But this does not make you any less compicit or responsible. Just don't come at all, we'll find a way.
Les cultures d'avocat en Espagne, sous serre et assèche le pays et cla dure depuis des années, sont pour le plaisir gustatif des westerners, ils se foutent royalement du manque d'eau du moment qu'ils mangent leur avocat
@@korth26 But the girl is right. What does a tourist care about water problems? This is the authorities' problem. If there is a shortage of water, the authorities should close the hotels and build, for example, factories. Spain can live off what Germany does, they don't have to live off tourism. And he is right about agriculture, in the north of Europe there are a lot of agricultural products from Spain, It uses water, not a tourist who takes an 8-minute shower, after all, this water goes back to the sewage treatment plant. The water supplied at the tomato plantation is shipped north in trucks. You could say - Spain smuggles water in agricultural products
@@sailormani I never said they we're which is why they are not being built but society wise they are needed. I wouldn't mind some of my taxes going to running de-salinization plants.
It's more that precipation has uneven distribution. Some places become dryer, some wetter. Spain definitely needs to look at their agriculture, that's probably the low lying fruit. It's not a sustainable business anyways to supply whole of Europe with tomato's and pepperoni in winter.
The environmental impacts of desalination are huge. Most forms of desalination are energy-intensive. Desalination has the potential to increase fossil fuel dependence, increase greenhouse gas emissions, and exacerbate climate change if renewable energy sources are not used for freshwater production. Desalination surface water intakes are a huge threat to marine life. Mature fish, larvae, and other marine life can be significantly injured or killed when they become trapped or sucked into open water surface intake pipes. The State Water Resources Control Board estimates that open ocean intakes used by coastal power plants in California kill 70 billion fish larvae and other marine life on an annual basis. These same open ocean intakes are being proposed for use at desalination plants throughout California. Brine waste also poses a potential threat to marine life and water quality, as it contains dangerously high concentration of salts and other minerals. Because of its high density and salinity, brine waste can accumulate in and around disposal areas smothering bottom dwelling species and significantly altering coastal ecosystems. Desalination’s energy-intensive process is expensive and environmentally harmful, making it a costly strategy to bolster regional water supplies.
Pools everywhere, but locals have to be carful / rationed, whilst the tourists just blatantly waste water ! Why not 'water meter' tourists rooms and charge on their bill etc, as when people have to 'pay' more, you can guarantee most will cut back to acceptable usage or even use less than the locals. Gaz UK.
I don't understand, if water treatment, reusing it for agriculture and permaculture solve the water problem, why on earth is no one doing it? Don't blame others, tourists and the agriculture that sustains the country, blame politicians who don't do what needs to be done!
Tourists/colonizors always denying their responsibility in ruining their favourite resort, my country. 'Its their rulers'. 'Its their economic system'. Might be, we know who is complicit. But this does not make you any less compicit or responsible.
Very well done and eye-opening. I live in Barcelona and even during the drought they still wash the streets at night - crazy! Agriculture, golf courses, pools and non-reclaimed wastewater needs to be massively improved. I believe there will be wars about water in the future.
@@warrorr413 Lake Baikal alone have enough fresh water to supply billions of people in India and China while the small population in Russia doesn't need it, so what do you think will happen when over one billion people in India and China are without fresh water?
@@adamgreenlee9084 Drought conditions across the western US have improved over the water year, but have not been alleviated according to National Integrated Drought Information System(NIDIS)
Yeah, nice example of IMPORTANT documentary! Enormous industry facilities get away with sparing Billions of liters of water, while natives have to pay for themselves if they have a water tubbery explodes at their home. Infinite ACs and water for nice looking offices and hotels and people die of hunger without home down here! This is going nuts.... :(
At home people keep their towels and bed sheets for a week or two. But if someone else has to do the work, they demand unecessary change of those daily. Too bad!
just been back from mainland Spain south and central it rained heavily for 5 out of 8 days i was there and for 40 hours it rained non stop just south of Madrid, so no scarcity now, what a relief.
but I reckon it's not enough to replenish ground water. When the ground becomes too dry it becomes very difficult for it to absorb water to surface tension
The world is going to its tragic end drastically because it's not focusing duely on the critical issues with serious insights.Every nation is striving for economic growth but at the expense of natural resources that are lifeline.Now the things have gone far from imagination in terms of existential threat and if the right steps are not takem on emergency basis,there would be unimaginable disaster with no nation to claim advancement.
I don't understand the part with plastic greenhouse covers. What are the takeaways from this part? We should not grow food? Or we should not use greenhouse covers to reduce water evaporation? What is the possible solution? Farmers need water anyway and it's a way to use less of it.
They are growing things like mangos (Málaga) which require huge water usage, tomatoes as well. It is simply not sustainable. Almeria, is to all intense & purposes a desert.
@@Mackcolak-xf5bkSpain supplies entire Europe with fruit and vegetable, particularly in winter when northern Europe can't produce. So that's the European food system in a nutshell. In the end, no matter what we do, it will mean more price increases....
It's not a question of growing vegetables or not, but of how much. If a small region has to produce for almost the whole continent, then there is something going into the wrong direction.
@@HolgerJakobs I thought they were doing it to earn profits. So the question is if they can grow more and sell more, why would they be incentivized to grow less? Netherlands is the same, they use almost all fertile land for agriculture because it's profitable, not because they have to do it.
Blame the tourist for your problem why not definitely it's not your government's fault is it? Spain has high mountains with lot of rainfall other States in Spain do not share water with the rest of Spain this is an internal problem in Spain. If The tourist stop coming to spain that would be a massive devastation to your economy you can't have it both ways Sort out your own internal problems witt states near the mountains to share the water.
Mass tourism is aggravating Spain's water shortage. It's part of the equation. Climate change is to blame, as much as intensive agriculture, mass tourism, waste of water for recreative activities,...
@toxicblackwidow9841 I don't know where you live in the world but it's been raining around the world a lot more than normal farmers around the world are not planting their crops due to wet fields even in the UK where I'm from they are planting late that to me does not sound like global warming? In Spain each state looks after their own just like the United States each state in the United States have their own laws ect . This is a Spanish internal problem they don't share the water look into it you will see.
@MissRed92837 it's nothing to do with global warming the planet is getting wetter not hotter stop watching the main stream news and start watching the alternative Media the Spanish are not sharing water Spain has a lot of public water fountains a lot of agriculture they wast water like it's going out of fashion which it is for them.
This countries and cities tend to blame tourism for everything that their own government should sort. I hardly believe that less tourists will be the answer. All this dry places have reservoirs... But they don't build structures in various places to store water underground when it rains. All that rain water can get sent to storege via guttering and pipes... But hey .
Tourists/colonizors always denying their responsibility in ruining their favourite resort, my country. 'Its their rulers'. 'Its their economic system'. Might be, we know who is complicit. But this does not make you any less compicit or responsible.
@@korth26 Tourist should stop going there and then we should see crying. Don't blame tourism... It's not like you haye great economy to be fussy. I personally don't go to countries that are double standards.. Hate tourists but love their money... You can't have it both ways 😂😂😂
Clean water is a precious resource and it's totally ignored by the Brussels sponsored H2Med project to create "green H2" in Spain and pipeline it to France. Problem ignored by all seems to be that for every KG of H2 you need 6 litres of clean water. With the tonnage/day of H2 shipped to pay for the €3,2billion project for the Barcelona-Marseille pipeline there is no clean water source available. So can you question Gonzalo Escribano, an energy expert at Madrid's Real Instituto Elcano think tank on how this will be achieved. Keep up the good reporting DW.
Instrumental in this fight are green technologies-renewable energy sources and electric vehicles-vital for mitigating the detrimental impacts of global warming.
The problem with all this is people like you: bathing or tourists, are not the problem (You don't fix something by trying to fix the symptoms), poor management of water reuse (which should go to agriculture), and the non-use of permaculture, are the problem
@@somerandomfella You don't treat the symptoms, you change the root. If expanding the green areas will increase water retention, which will allow you to maintain everything else (because it rains in Spain, the problem is that the water is poorly used, and is not retained for long enough). Water that does not evaporate is misused or runs into the sea.
In the other hand, we have more then 4,000 km of gas pipes from Russia to Germany and Poland. Could we not have pipes for water? The issue is not the regular joe, but the corporations. Housing in Southern Spain is very cheap for this and related reasons.
Dios Mio, I love Spain, visited the city of Barcelona and Girona last 2022 as a Filipino myself Spain feels like home to me the culture, food and the weather just like the Filipinas but a wee bit warmer ahahaha! I live in Northern Ireland for 2 years now if only we can share the rain here. #saveMadreEarth.
Im spanish and in my lufe time I have seen how this country has waisted water on golf courses, hotels, tourism in general at an alarming rate. The miss use of water in agriculture is as well huge, there is no control over it, in my area, coast of granada ilegal wells are drilled by the houndreds every year, the streats are cleaned with water every morning, we have free showers on the beach that are abused by the tourists, specially by kids that play with them, the list of water miss used is never ending 😢
İstanbul with 20 million population attracts only 20 million foreign tourists in one year time. Water level at 10 water dams of Istanbul Turkey is now 35 percent. 20 days ago, water level was 16 percent at İstanbul's 10 water dams. Barcelona is lucky with 2 million citizens, attract yearly 28 million foreign tourists.
Water just like air belongs to everyone! When we pay for water we pay for the services that pump it to us. If dig it up ourselves on our own land, it is just ridiculous to call it illegal!
Why is the surrounding countryside so green then with the reservoir so low? If there's such a drought why hasn't the folliage all died off around the reservoir
A bit of a hypocritical people in Catalonia. Wanting all the money from the tourists. And then if you have to invest for a solution, it is easier to let the tourists suffer. The farmers are also affected by it. There is enough rain throughout the year. It is not far from the mountains. There is more than enough income to create more solutions than having one resevior. It's more moaning than looking for solutions and investing in the future.
Indeed. And then you see tourists in this video complaining that they can't take a shower after a beach day. Blissfully unaware of why that is and uncaring about what that means for the local population. That blissful unawareness is going to change in the coming years though, and it's going to happen much sooner than most people think. It's going to make for a very rough awakening. The past decades everyone has been thinking "severe climate change is only really going to ramp up when I'm already gone, so who cares? I got mine" which has made it so that nothing has been done to mitigate it. And now it's becoming blatantly apparent that it's actually going to happen in our lifetimes, much sooner than anticipated, in the following decades. All thanks to decades of thinking "après nous, le déluge" and, with a twinkle in the eye, passing the bill on to the next generations. And what we're seeing now is the result of emissions of 10-15 years ago, there's a delay in the effects, so we haven't even seen the effects of the huge rise in the last decade. Sad, but not undeserved
Nah. Our planet went through so much more and life on Earth was fine. In past in renaisance period Europe faced warmer climate. You could grow oranges in Poland. If food crisis happen it will be fault of the rich who will just stop buying from farmers and pay them to destroy their crops.
Tourism, golf, international competitions of all sorts. Water is driving the collapse - the collapse of economic, entertainment, recreation expectations. And without adequate water, food shortages. And zero day for water in Mexico City is less than a month away.
The "Plastic Sea" in Almeria exist because of our need to consume all vegetables , all year round. Of course farming policies affect too. The production has been allowed to grow regardless of the obvious water scarcity. The fact that waste water is not reused except for golf courses is a scandal! Visiting Spain from a Nordic country you react to the thrown away trash in nature, mostly plastic bottles and cans in droves along where rain water is routed. It really takes away a bit of your holiday experience
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The water scarcity issue in Spain, especially in Catalonia and Andalusia, is a pressing concern. This documentary sheds light on a critical problem we all must address. Thank you for bringing awareness to this important issue.
On Canary islands we have the same problem, unfortunately. And nobody but activists cares.
there are so many solutions but the guys in charge here are clueless. You don't think countries like Singapore struggle with water scarcity? They have desalination plants, they use more economical agricultural practices, they adapted to the changes around them instead of just complaining and blaming.
@@mmaidofsteel ok genius. We are the country with the most desalination plants per capita, and our agriculture is one of the most water-efficient in the world.
I wish it were only Spain, but obscene water wastage is everywhere.
Th water shortage in Spain is horrible. I live in Granada which in the south just like Almería and Malaga. This region is fairly lucky as it’s where the highest peak of Spain is (Sierra Nevada) which supplies it with fresh water. However you can clearly see the level of nearby reservoirs drastically dropping and never reaching the same level like in the past. The majority of the people don’t seem to care as they’re used to the heat and having water running from the tap. This year the local council put out some posters to encourage people to spend maximum 4 minutes under the shower but other than that there is not much being done. Agriculture is clearly the main culprit here but I guess as long as it makes so much money for the country not much will be done. It’s really sad and depressing 😢
If we think in agriculture in general, soy and corn are the big consumption. I don't know much about the reality in Spain, but you can imagine how much water we use in Brazil to grow our crops and to feed livestock with those plants.
@@darwinsilva8188 surely rice is worse?
@@harukrentz435 well, rice uses a lot of water too, in Brazil we have huge amounts of rain that drown the fields, but in volume the corn and soy beans are much more common than rice fields around here.
Yeah I've visited Granada a number of times and each time looks drier and drier each time.
If I was you I'd move to Galicia.
How is it in winter?
Industry consumes a lot of water ; when the products are automobiles, garments etc which are discarded very quickly then it's criminal negligence .
Yes, right?
Batteries that only last 10 years.
Ale ta woda wraca do oczyszczalni
@@RUHappyATM 10 years? In which Eutopia do you live in that batteries last that long?
@@SonnyDarvish
That of the warranties...LOL.
I was in Donana National Park (southern Andalusia) last week it was so dry. The usual autumn rains hadn't happened and a lot of the lagoons were dry. It was 26C in mid-November without a cloud in the sky. It was quite sad.
Bonne nouvelle
Doñana is plagued by fruit and rice growers who illegally abstract water. There is also the issue of Matalascañas resort. Both issues have threatened Doñana with losing it's status as a world heritage site. Outside Doñana the rest of Andalucia is completely covered in olive trees, the owners of which recieve subsidies, with bare ploughed ground beneath, creating topsoil loss and massive gullies whenever it rains. The problem of water scarcity in Andalucia is doomed to get worse.
I am born in poor family my mother since I know my self always teach me to using only what needs. Like no waisting the water, electricity, food. Because we short of money every day and because it’s just as simple that’s how normally we should be thinking about waisting.
Now I am living privilege life but for me it’s still very important and normal to teaching my son how we can save and not wasting. He is 6 years old he switch the light in rooms right after he’s moved same the water when showering. We are dress up if we are cold nor heating only for night time. Only drinking tap water I don’t buy bottled water with the food if he not finished he says will be finish later or if I buy him a pizza and don’t finish he knows I am not gonna buy him for a while only if he surely knows that he can finish them all.
Thank you for conserving resources! I hope to do the same when I become a parent.
We also taught our children these things even thou in a country with no water issues, it's about looking after this planet and thinking of future generations.
Spain probably can't keep growing so much vegetables for whole Europe. Or maybe they can if more dry Israel manage to do so, it's also about waste water management.
It worries me that these docs target SMEs and ignore the impact of global corporations. If they keep condemning SMEs where will we be then.
Exactly. The never speak against the large corporations using the most water. They want to make silly decision like banning airbnbs and blaming tourist. Why is Catalonia not investing more in desalinization?
Maybe SMEs are the largest share - I know that's the case for taxes, surprisingly SMEs avoid way more than large corporations.
What you say is true but keep in mind that they showed 2 cities in Spain with a clear evidence that the problem are not big corporations. It would be nice to see the problem as a whole (Spain) then they will have to target the big guys for sure (in the same way that they have showed it in Germany with agriculture and Bayer, etc)
@@Originalman144Tourists/colonizors always denying their resplnsibility in ruining their favourite resort, my country. 'Its their rulers'. 'Its their economic system'. Might be, we know who is complicit. But this does not make you any less compicit or responsible.
If you see another water shortage doc against Coca cola, IBM etc, will not blame DW. That is good one.
Another great and relevant documentary by DW . Please keep making the difference and keep giving the viewers information and knowledge.
Thanks for watching and sharing your thoughts!
Golf Courses are Always Watered too.
In France, we don't have this kind of problem.
We usually take 12-minute showers, but only once a month.
wooooooow
True story 😂
Is that why Paris is stinky?
EVERY MONTH??
😂😂😂 Be careful. Americans believe everything they hear, read or see on tv and social media. 😂
I remember when the Bond movie came out with this villain that user water as his main source of control and power. Felt a bit farfetched back then.
But now with all these stories about water scarcity I feel the situation is just worsening to a degree that is very discouraging😢
Rune, Which 007 movie is its i'd wanna know. Water scarcity is very real. Also Ich meine es Ernst . i have always though the problem was multifaceted. I could never understand why the onus is put on us to use less plastic and cut severely on water usage when the bigger consumers of water are all those firearms that the NO., SE, UK , US and the likes sell to warn torn nations. All those billions in revenue we are making off people we actively participate in the demise of .and we are not even counting the polluted river beds and seas .
“Liquid gold”
Predicted programming
The water is not less in the atmosphere, is probably more due to more evaporation. The problem is it rains completely unbalanced - too much in some area and times, and very little in others. And we have not good enough water storing solutions. Stay local and save airplane fuel, live naturally, reduce global heating up!
I would think it's a issue of poor foresight on the gov't's part.
Yeap, exactly. Here in Switzerland it's been raining for 10 days straight and will for 3 more.... Pretty wet.
We can build a water pipeline to Spain but it won't be as cheap as oil... Guess we are a Ressource rich nation now. 😅
Amazing documentary as always ❤.Thank you for highlighting such grave problems faced by humanity all around the world.Water scarcity is already a reality in many parts of the world and it will only get worse from here on out.The next wars will definitely be fought for water.
Thank you for watching and taking the time to comment!
Funny you'd say that, because where I am in Switzerland it's been raining for the last 10 days straight and will do so for another 3 days. That's two straight weeks of torrential downpour. Guess I go into the water business soon... 😅
Why not use seawater for the pools ? You don't have to drink it, it only needs to be unpoluted. Using fresh drinkwater for the pools seems not smart. Better salt seawater and then a very short cold shower then ten thousands of fresh water into the swimming pool spoiled.
Money, they are more expensive.
Or why don’t they build a plant by the sea and get clean water from reverse osmosis like on big cruise ships?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!
Seawater is corrosive
@@gregsimon3032bcs it would need a lot of money to build it..
And most people would need to agree with using sea water..
Harry had the best attitude; he said, “sure, if there’s no other way”, to the “what if no pool” question signifying willingness to change.
Dont we all?
Planting more tree can be helpful. Trees store water it their roots what results in higher level of ground water
Northern Europe diverts hundreds of Megawatts from the cold and moist prevailing currents while Southern Europe burns in draught.
I am wondering: IS THERE A CONNECTION?
Very true
Planting Trees is a quick-fix but superficial solutions to water crisis, instead Monoculture & Mass plantation drive will exacerbate the water shortages if not done scientifically.
Naturally growing shrubs, dry deciduous forests & native plants play an important role to replenishing d ground water table.
Some species of trees consume excess ground water can do more damage to ecology.
Closing the northern border might be even more helpful, EU is a scam for us.
@@centurione6489 wat
Another excellent documentary. Thank you! Is it just me or does it seem like today’s problems are unprecedentedly large? And all hitting at once.
Thanks for watching and for your constructive feedback! :-)
All the problems we have were all very clearly forecasted many years ago. What we're receiving now is exactly as predicted if not worse... and if you think things are bad now, wait and see what's about to come.
The same thing happens in California and we were under severe water restrictions up to last winter . The water situation was beyond critical but last November the sky’s opened and the amount of rain and snowfall was massive with serious consequences. . Spain needs a good soaking.
Catalonia is not the California of Europe albeit half of the world is pushing hard to project it. What we need is no tourism and rich colonizors accelerating gentrification and pushing the locals away, including old ladies who can't pay what the media german oblivious expat is paying .
Desalination plants and salt water swimming pools would help too.
Do you save rain water in order to use it again?
Do NOT let drumph win or the world will be lost...
severe how? You had water shut offs?
I'm on the 17th minute, let's be serious, many problems could be overcome.
The desertification could be halted, minimalized, or reversed by the smart planting of succulents and other drought-resistant plants.
The greenhouses could be rebuilt into more sustainable buildings made from glass and other recyclable materials, drip irrigation and maybe changing the growing production to saltwater-tolerant plants.
And don't forget about more permaculture approaches, creating artificial oases and such.
The water scarcity could be overcome by the widespread building of water reservoirs, better sewage treatment systems, adding desalination plants, etc.
95% of Spanish water consumption is agriculture usage...
And it's not just regular agriculture, it's intensive and completely unnatural.
@@Chahliecows drink 100-150L a day 😉
Well, when they’re the Fruit basket of Europe, this is what it leads to.
Every Illegal well overlooked subsidizes agriculture. It's up to the tourism industry and the cities to get politicians that will regulate agriculture, or agriculture will strangle both industries.
In Spain, about 84% of the water used in agriculture is for crops, with 66% of the cultivated area dedicated to producing feed for livestock. Additionally, livestock in Spain consumes around 48,000 million cubic meters of water annually, an amount comparable to what all Spanish households would use in over twenty years source: tercerainformacion
DW always ignoring animal agriculture and always always grasp at straws. Animal agriculture is an extremely inefficient industry taking 80% of the world's agricultural land, a lot of water and yet only provides 18% of the world's calories. Not to mention that animal agriculture emits more greenhouse gases than the entirely transportation system COMBINED, yes, including planes.
Man, if pools and golf courses are wasteful antagonists to be featured in a documentary then you guys need to get out to the Colorado river basin. As mentioned, Las Vegas and Phoenix are doing some interesting things with water conservation, but as far as I know, that situation is still about as backwards as Chile's. States get allocated more water than the system has and water starved farmers work with a use-it-or-lose-it system so if they try to conserve water, it means they'll get less to use next year. So now the river usually doesn't empty into the sea and farmers grow all kinds of crazy crops that can't withstand any drought because no politician wants to be the bad guy and tell their constituents "No water for you."
California is same.. Use it or lose it...
I was in Barcelona a few weeks ago and can confirm the hatred towards tourists is real. Not friendly at all
I mean you are spending the water and you are annoying so..
Hope you feel it too in the Balearic colony
Hate tourists love their money…🙄
et les touristent adorent, locals should be more rude to them
Imagine having to walk 5 miles for your drinking water everyday.
Whining about not having water for a swimming pool when some people don't even have running water to hand.
People are so self-absorbed.
This is going to happen across the world. Water will be gold.
Millions will die and are already in the wars over water
Population needs to decrease
Every one should be careful how much MEAT they eating , i changed my diet not because is a fason etc cause this is madnes how much water wasted to eat 1kg meat. Yeah the problem is people do not care until the last second and then would be LATE😢
Best way to save water in any tourists site: DO NOT TRAVEL THERE.
Flight to the tourist site is a huge emission maker. And being in a hotel with showers, air conditioners, pools, huge sewage/waste problems and so on is making things even worse.
I agree, less holidays away people it is a privilege to travel and don't go on cruise ships.
saying do not travel is the same as to say do not breathe. You can imprison yourself, but people are free to go where they want to!
@@sacuki2151 People are allowed to kill all life on this planet among themselves...
That's your argument.
@@martiansoon9092so you only walk and cycle?
@@LiquidShivaz Me? Yup.
Of course we need other transportation too. But having just huge emissions while having "fun" is a big no for me.
I don't want to be heating our planet with emissions that can be avoided.
Choosing train travel to the nearer holiday locations is much better choice.
Also why would you like to end up in the middle of the drought, wildfire and worsening the local water scarcity? That is just insane choice that many tourist makes currently. And then whines about it.
You read 5 min through the comments and you understand the dislike of tourist in Barcelona.
Como es posible tener ya estas señales y no hacer nada? Seguimos persiguiendo el dinero y desperdiciando agua y destruyendo bosques, selvas y otros recursos cuando al final ningún dinero podrá comprar agua cuando ya no haya. Cuando aprenderemos que el dinero no se come? Increíble que los animales tengan mas sentido común que nosotros ya que ellos solo consumen lo que necesitan sin acaparar como el hombre.
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Wow… what a dumb response, the internet is global and you are encouraging a monoculture. Disappointed!
@@DWDocumentary use Google translate
You can watch this documentary in DW Spanish and post your comments !
Pools and Individuals are not the problem..
Large Corporations and Manufacturers are the problem....
Yep, they are putting the blame on commom people. Turism ruins a lot of things but when it comes to water cooportations use it big.
@@cosmiceyes it’s spelt tourism btw and no we ALL have to take responsibility for our excessive consumption ☮️💜
golf course certainly are!
@@sailormani YYYAAASSSS!!!!
It’s time WE ALL stepped up , but u keep driving your ford truck, and golfing at your fav club and swimming in your “ pool” lol EVERYONE IS THE PROBLEM my friend
We went up to Ronda when we visited Fuengirola. It was so much hotter up in the hills, about 38° C, unbearable for me. You need more water to keep cool, showers, drinking water, gardens, pools
Our just have your vaction at home
It's lovely up there . I lived in Fuengirola for years before my darling husband died & I moved up North. When back down there recently all the beach showers were turned off. They are due to have a few days rain next week
No problem with water in the North of Spain …. Just completed 800miles cycling on 2 Caminos and it rained a lot.
Yes I accept that the Mediterranean is a lot drier however you painted a picture of the entire Spain being dry.
That usage of water for golf is abhorrent and then you see them trying to make it better by saying they are using recycled water. Golf should simply not existe at all.
They should play on sand!
💯 what a waste of land and water for what is an elite “sport”. I’d go further and only allow mini golf courses
Things need to change across the board. Geoff Lawton has an incredible project in Jordan called Greening the Desert. So many lessons could be learnt nust from him and there are so many more ways to reduce our water consumption. We must demand our governments to do better chamgong regulations and monitoring!
Matalascañas isn’t a tourist resort. It’s all Spanish people; mostly from Sevilla.
People please don't travel to Spain in the summer!
I travel to Spain every year but never in the summer time. Middle of the winter some day in Barcelona is still nice and warm. Some days it rains. In the spring the weather is nicest. In the summer it's much too hot. I like 30 degree celsius going to the beach. Not 40.
And why woud I leave Finland in the summer when it's finally nice and warm here. It makes sense for me to travel to Spain in the winter to get away from the cold and dark.
6:20 This is incorrect, the numbers instead of names at the doorbell do not mean that these flats are Airbnb. It is like that on all Barcelona on all buildings. If you find a doorbell with names, it's the exception to the rule.
I’m going to Cuba in 7 days , they have a shortage of food, alcohol, all staples like flour ( so no bread ) I never complain because as hard as it for us tourists it’s 100 times worse for locals . It’s a good wake up call of things to come . I’m fine with potable water and less food, it’s good for me
@@DG-ie5ip I said they have water ( guess u missed that and yeah as a North American I eat too much , imbibe too often , so yea overall drinking lots of water walking a beautiful unspoiled beach is a lot better than pigs at the trough during feeding time and drinking my face off… a little bump of reality I would otherwise not get up close and personal, I’m not a really all inclusive kinda brat stealing food and water from locals just cos I have 1200.00 bucks BHAHAHA
@@DG-ie5ip maybe u should try it? It’s quite fun actually
Bring a bunch of small travel toothpaste, toothbrush, and feminine tampons. You can trade this stuff for a supply of rum for your trip or give it away to the hotel or bnb staff. You will be greatly thanked. These things can be hard to find in Cuba.
@Racheykins you are absolutely right! It IS a warning for what is to come.
@@DG-ie5ip I SAID AS LONG AS THEY HAVE POTABLE WATER IM GOOD !!! And yes I could Stand to go a little hungry
Water is life..My country is blessed with continuous rain every year that overfilled our dams. We have hundreds of natural waterfalls and water springs, lakes from volcanoes... Spain's dams is almost bone dry.
What country you from
@@crazygamer-bn5db Iceland
you would think there was a way to connect the beach showers to collect water from the ocean
Haven’t been to Barcelona in over 10 years, won’t come back, it’s sad to watch this waste, big big ick
Wow that wonderfull botanical garden in the open in Almeria is magnifficent, we should all learn from it. I really take care to plant plants usefull for animals and polinators.
The guy who said ''there's nothing sadder than a fountain without water''
I would say there's nothing sadder than people going short of water just because of some moaning tourists who can only waste it !
Gaz UK
Where I used to live in South Spain I used to get frustrated with holiday makers not turning off the shower by the pool . Would tell them to go stop wasting water
Romania is in the same situation. It s happening all over the world
No its not its the media trying to scare you. many people live in places where they have perfect weather and lots of water
It's not happening all over the world. It's a propaganda to blame fellow citizens and neighbors about their consumption and never blame the large corporations or people buying up the water rights and land.
As a truck driver in North America I see a lot of rivers and lakes they are all noticeably receding or drying up completely.
@@solarlight10 video is about Spain bro
@@Originalman144ot is happening all over the world
When I shower, I get wet. Then turn the water off. Then apply soap and clean. Then turn water back on for a final rinse. Saving water and money.
Brazil is very hot... high temperatures.. we need to take action or we will have problems 😢
didn't er. Jayeer Bolsonaro said there was no issues ? can't have your cake and eat it too
Just raise the cost of water. Everybody will start saving it.
Golf Course is no1 curse on common man next comes tourism industry.
We have to shut down golf AND tourism. Then really put these capitalists owners before the law.
Dear Spaniards, a simple solution: increase the price per m3 of water,
as much for land owners (agricultural industries) as for real estate owners.
The price is a message, it will push buyers, producers to become inventive again, to create new solutions, starting FROM THE PRIVATE SECTOR.
tourism is unsustainable
Instead of blaming others, why not just build the desalination industry to meet demands?
@@bryanhill9714 Too much work.
@@lenkacoyne420 it’s actually quite simple compared to other human accomplishments. Are you suggesting they are too lazy and do not have the work ethic?
As if I would want to stress about the length of my shower when I pay a lot to stay in a hotel. Meanwhile big corporations and especially those huge agricultural farms that are growing avocados and what not in the South of Spain are wasting water like crazy, but yes blame the individual. Also: The doorbells always have numbers and not names, it doesn't mean it is an airbnb..
The most selfish and unconsiderate comment towars locals I've seen, but not really a surprise. Tourists/colonizors always denying their resplnsibility in ruining their favourite resort, my country. 'Its their rulers'. 'Its their economic system'. Might be, we know who is complicit. But this does not make you any less compicit or responsible. Just don't come at all, we'll find a way.
@korth26 "Tourist/Colonizers" !?! What a ridiculous statement! Spain colonized as much as the other Europeans.
Les cultures d'avocat en Espagne, sous serre et assèche le pays et cla dure depuis des années, sont pour le plaisir gustatif des westerners, ils se foutent royalement du manque d'eau du moment qu'ils mangent leur avocat
@@korth26 But the girl is right. What does a tourist care about water problems? This is the authorities' problem. If there is a shortage of water, the authorities should close the hotels and build, for example, factories. Spain can live off what Germany does, they don't have to live off tourism. And he is right about agriculture, in the north of Europe there are a lot of agricultural products from Spain, It uses water, not a tourist who takes an 8-minute shower, after all, this water goes back to the sewage treatment plant. The water supplied at the tomato plantation is shipped north in trucks. You could say - Spain smuggles water in agricultural products
An overall solution involves every possibility, not just the one that's inconvenient to you.
They need to stop growing crops that are water-demanding in areas prone to drought.
Do you know that the Sahara desert was a tropical forest only 20000 years ago
Incredible that in 2023 when countries are surrounded by ocean we still don't build de-salinization plants...
dear frnd, de-salinization plants r not cost effective..
@@sailormani I never said they we're which is why they are not being built but society wise they are needed. I wouldn't mind some of my taxes going to running de-salinization plants.
Nor is flying to the moon cost effective nor is going to war cost effective
It's more that precipation has uneven distribution. Some places become dryer, some wetter.
Spain definitely needs to look at their agriculture, that's probably the low lying fruit. It's not a sustainable business anyways to supply whole of Europe with tomato's and pepperoni in winter.
The environmental impacts of desalination are huge. Most forms of desalination are energy-intensive. Desalination has the potential to increase fossil fuel dependence, increase greenhouse gas emissions, and exacerbate climate change if renewable energy sources are not used for freshwater production. Desalination surface water intakes are a huge threat to marine life. Mature fish, larvae, and other marine life can be significantly injured or killed when they become trapped or sucked into open water surface intake pipes.
The State Water Resources Control Board estimates that open ocean intakes used by coastal power plants in California kill 70 billion fish larvae and other marine life on an annual basis. These same open ocean intakes are being proposed for use at desalination plants throughout California. Brine waste also poses a potential threat to marine life and water quality, as it contains dangerously high concentration of salts and other minerals. Because of its high density and salinity, brine waste can accumulate in and around disposal areas smothering bottom dwelling species and significantly altering coastal ecosystems.
Desalination’s energy-intensive process is expensive and environmentally harmful, making it a costly strategy to bolster regional water supplies.
Pools everywhere, but locals have to be carful / rationed, whilst the tourists just blatantly waste water !
Why not 'water meter' tourists rooms and charge on their bill etc, as when people have to 'pay' more, you can guarantee most will cut back to acceptable usage or even use less than the locals.
Gaz UK.
I don't understand, if water treatment, reusing it for agriculture and permaculture solve the water problem, why on earth is no one doing it?
Don't blame others, tourists and the agriculture that sustains the country, blame politicians who don't do what needs to be done!
Don't underestimate the pigheaded stubbornness of the Spanish
Tourists/colonizors always denying their responsibility in ruining their favourite resort, my country. 'Its their rulers'. 'Its their economic system'. Might be, we know who is complicit. But this does not make you any less compicit or responsible.
@@korth26 95% water used in Spain is for agriculture, but go ahead and blame tourists.
Very well done and eye-opening. I live in Barcelona and even during the drought they still wash the streets at night - crazy! Agriculture, golf courses, pools and non-reclaimed wastewater needs to be massively improved. I believe there will be wars about water in the future.
Thanks for watching and sharing your thoughts!
Northern China and the US West Coast are also running out of water, wars in the future will be fought over water supply unlike the 20th century
how will world fight it over water ..cheap talk
The US West Coast is no longer in a drought due to crazy snowy winters and rainy summers
@@warrorr413 Lake Baikal alone have enough fresh water to supply billions of people in India and China while the small population in Russia doesn't need it, so what do you think will happen when over one billion people in India and China are without fresh water?
@@adamgreenlee9084 Drought conditions across the western US have improved over the water year, but have not been alleviated according to National Integrated Drought Information System(NIDIS)
@@adamgreenlee9084 EL nino year.. not a suprise, lets talk again in 3 years and see what the new record low numbers will be.
we cant do without straws, foot rinses, free plastic one time use bags, were doomed, if we dont grow up..
Yeah, nice example of IMPORTANT documentary!
Enormous industry facilities get away with sparing Billions of liters of water, while natives have to pay for themselves if they have a water tubbery explodes at their home. Infinite ACs and water for nice looking offices and hotels and people die of hunger without home down here! This is going nuts.... :(
esto es verdad
Good documentary
Yes its true i m working in hotel as house keeping , client daily want that their bed sheets and towels should change.
At home people keep their towels and bed sheets for a week or two. But if someone else has to do the work, they demand unecessary change of those daily. Too bad!
Where would you work if they don’t come?
just been back from mainland Spain south and central it rained heavily for 5 out of 8 days i was there and for 40 hours it rained non stop just south of Madrid, so no scarcity now, what a relief.
but I reckon it's not enough to replenish ground water. When the ground becomes too dry it becomes very difficult for it to absorb water to surface tension
Even a stallion will understand rains for a few days mean nothing
Tourism and agriculture is most of your economy. Just decide which you want.
Lol two min shower with 200litres of pool next to him is insane😅
And some how he thinks that he has beaten the system. Smh
My region is suffering so much... I'm from ALGARVE (South Portugal)
Plenty of water here in the north of Spain 😊
But the problem is that each Comunidad Autonomo is not obligated to share its watter supply with other Comunidades..
For how long ?
@@HGoyas The north of Spain gets a ton of rain each year and has more rivers and fresh water streams.
@@Originalman144 There is no point if there are no natural structures to keep the water underground until the next rains.
The world is going to its tragic end drastically because it's not focusing duely on the critical issues with serious insights.Every nation is striving for economic growth but at the expense of natural resources that are lifeline.Now the things have gone far from imagination in terms of existential threat and if the right steps are not takem on emergency basis,there would be unimaginable disaster with no nation to claim advancement.
Thank You for great document ❤
Thanks a lot for watching and for your positive feedback.
I don't understand the part with plastic greenhouse covers. What are the takeaways from this part? We should not grow food? Or we should not use greenhouse covers to reduce water evaporation? What is the possible solution? Farmers need water anyway and it's a way to use less of it.
They are growing things like mangos (Málaga) which require huge water usage, tomatoes as well. It is simply not sustainable. Almeria, is to all intense & purposes a desert.
@@Westhamsterdam So the solution would be to grow some other food in these places, that use less water but also profitable for the farmers, right?
@@Mackcolak-xf5bkSpain supplies entire Europe with fruit and vegetable, particularly in winter when northern Europe can't produce. So that's the European food system in a nutshell. In the end, no matter what we do, it will mean more price increases....
It's not a question of growing vegetables or not, but of how much. If a small region has to produce for almost the whole continent, then there is something going into the wrong direction.
@@HolgerJakobs I thought they were doing it to earn profits. So the question is if they can grow more and sell more, why would they be incentivized to grow less? Netherlands is the same, they use almost all fertile land for agriculture because it's profitable, not because they have to do it.
Blame the tourist for your problem why not definitely it's not your government's fault is it? Spain has high mountains with lot of rainfall other States in Spain do not share water with the rest of Spain this is an internal problem in Spain. If The tourist stop coming to spain that would be a massive devastation to your economy you can't have it both ways Sort out your own internal problems witt states near the mountains to share the water.
Mass tourism is aggravating Spain's water shortage. It's part of the equation. Climate change is to blame, as much as intensive agriculture, mass tourism, waste of water for recreative activities,...
@toxicblackwidow9841 I don't know where you live in the world but it's been raining around the world a lot more than normal farmers around the world are not planting their crops due to wet fields even in the UK where I'm from they are planting late that to me does not sound like global warming? In Spain each state looks after their own just like the United States each state in the United States have their own laws ect . This is a Spanish internal problem they don't share the water look into it you will see.
@@mrlover4310I live in Nevada, USA and we have here in many parts of the US less rain due to global warming!
@MissRed92837 it's nothing to do with global warming the planet is getting wetter not hotter stop watching the main stream news and start watching the alternative Media the Spanish are not sharing water Spain has a lot of public water fountains a lot of agriculture they wast water like it's going out of fashion which it is for them.
If there is no water, tourists will not be able to shower....maybe that way you are more interested in the topic.....no shower....
This docu should be mandatory by all the people who deny global warming and greenhouse effect!
"Get a shot of that guy staring straight down at the desiccated bird" really sells it at 1.08
hmm, no mention of the data centers water usage.
A wonderful really show documentary shared by an excellent (DW) documentary channel...thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment.
The south of Spain will not be habitable in the next 10 years. If I had a holiday home anywhere on the Costas I would be selling it asap.
This countries and cities tend to blame tourism for everything that their own government should sort. I hardly believe that less tourists will be the answer. All this dry places have reservoirs... But they don't build structures in various places to store water underground when it rains. All that rain water can get sent to storege via guttering and pipes... But hey .
Exactly
Tourists/colonizors always denying their responsibility in ruining their favourite resort, my country. 'Its their rulers'. 'Its their economic system'. Might be, we know who is complicit. But this does not make you any less compicit or responsible.
@@korth26 Tourist should stop going there and then we should see crying. Don't blame tourism... It's not like you haye great economy to be fussy. I personally don't go to countries that are double standards.. Hate tourists but love their money... You can't have it both ways 😂😂😂
@@zaneta3880 do not come, you won't be missed.😂😂
Clean water is a precious resource and it's totally ignored by the Brussels sponsored H2Med project to create "green H2" in Spain and pipeline it to France. Problem ignored by all seems to be that for every KG of H2 you need 6 litres of clean water. With the tonnage/day of H2 shipped to pay for the €3,2billion project for the Barcelona-Marseille pipeline there is no clean water source available. So can you question Gonzalo Escribano, an energy expert at Madrid's Real Instituto Elcano think tank on how this will be achieved. Keep up the good reporting DW.
Instrumental in this fight are green technologies-renewable energy sources and electric vehicles-vital for mitigating the detrimental impacts of global warming.
Yes blame the tourists not the agriculture and ultimately the food people waste..
The problem with all this is people like you: bathing or tourists, are not the problem (You don't fix something by trying to fix the symptoms), poor management of water reuse (which should go to agriculture), and the non-use of permaculture, are the problem
@@HGoyas people like you need to stop getting so worked up.
@@somerandomfella You don't treat the symptoms, you change the root. If expanding the green areas will increase water retention, which will allow you to maintain everything else (because it rains in Spain, the problem is that the water is poorly used, and is not retained for long enough). Water that does not evaporate is misused or runs into the sea.
In the other hand, we have more then 4,000 km of gas pipes from Russia to Germany and Poland. Could we not have pipes for water? The issue is not the regular joe, but the corporations. Housing in Southern Spain is very cheap for this and related reasons.
Dios Mio, I love Spain, visited the city of Barcelona and Girona last 2022 as a Filipino myself Spain feels like home to me the culture, food and the weather just like the Filipinas but a wee bit warmer ahahaha! I live in Northern Ireland for 2 years now if only we can share the rain here. #saveMadreEarth.
Im spanish and in my lufe time I have seen how this country has waisted water on golf courses, hotels, tourism in general at an alarming rate.
The miss use of water in agriculture is as well huge, there is no control over it, in my area, coast of granada ilegal wells are drilled by the houndreds every year, the streats are cleaned with water every morning, we have free showers on the beach that are abused by the tourists, specially by kids that play with them, the list of water miss used is never ending 😢
İstanbul with 20 million population attracts only 20 million foreign tourists in one year time. Water level at 10 water dams of Istanbul Turkey is now 35 percent. 20 days ago, water level was 16 percent at İstanbul's 10 water dams. Barcelona is lucky with 2 million citizens, attract yearly 28 million foreign tourists.
Such Pain
Btw do you know it takes 10K liters of water to make 1 computer? Love from Montreal!
Yes, and you use a computer at least for several years. But you consume a cup of coffee within minutes, which takes about 120 liters to make.
Water just like air belongs to everyone! When we pay for water we pay for the services that pump it to us. If dig it up ourselves on our own land, it is just ridiculous to call it illegal!
Why is the surrounding countryside so green then with the reservoir so low? If there's such a drought why hasn't the folliage all died off around the reservoir
This is soo sad for such a major tourist attraction
If i go somewhere i want to feel welcome. We just have to see reality. Global warming is real even if Donald Trump says its not. He is old and selfish
You guys can come to Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand.
They have.
Plane tickets to those countries are too high. Its a lot cheaper to fly within Europe
For how long?
A bit of a hypocritical people in Catalonia. Wanting all the money from the tourists. And then if you have to invest for a solution, it is easier to let the tourists suffer. The farmers are also affected by it. There is enough rain throughout the year. It is not far from the mountains. There is more than enough income to create more solutions than having one resevior. It's more moaning than looking for solutions and investing in the future.
Big profits for corporations!!! The little people. Forget them, they dont matter
How old is the old film footage, that shows the Sau reservoir? How is it now?
This is just the beginning. We already reached 1.5°C. No future, no food, no water. Death.
Indeed. And then you see tourists in this video complaining that they can't take a shower after a beach day. Blissfully unaware of why that is and uncaring about what that means for the local population. That blissful unawareness is going to change in the coming years though, and it's going to happen much sooner than most people think. It's going to make for a very rough awakening. The past decades everyone has been thinking "severe climate change is only really going to ramp up when I'm already gone, so who cares? I got mine" which has made it so that nothing has been done to mitigate it. And now it's becoming blatantly apparent that it's actually going to happen in our lifetimes, much sooner than anticipated, in the following decades. All thanks to decades of thinking "après nous, le déluge" and, with a twinkle in the eye, passing the bill on to the next generations. And what we're seeing now is the result of emissions of 10-15 years ago, there's a delay in the effects, so we haven't even seen the effects of the huge rise in the last decade. Sad, but not undeserved
by 2023 i heard
I know right ? It’s like no one realize we met and now surpassed the deadly 1.5
Nah. Our planet went through so much more and life on Earth was fine. In past in renaisance period Europe faced warmer climate. You could grow oranges in Poland. If food crisis happen it will be fault of the rich who will just stop buying from farmers and pay them to destroy their crops.
Well they can start to use rain and cloud technology same as Saudi Arabia or Dubai
Tourism, golf, international competitions of all sorts. Water is driving the collapse - the collapse of economic, entertainment, recreation expectations.
And without adequate water, food shortages. And zero day for water in Mexico City is less than a month away.
I just watched mad max fury road (water drought) and Veronica Spanish horror film… what a coincidence. 😅
Targetting showers and ignoring your food it's like an ostrich hiding his head in the sand!!!!
The "Plastic Sea" in Almeria exist because of our need to consume all vegetables , all year round. Of course farming policies affect too. The production has been allowed to grow regardless of the obvious water scarcity. The fact that waste water is not reused except for golf courses is a scandal! Visiting Spain from a Nordic country you react to the thrown away trash in nature, mostly plastic bottles and cans in droves along where rain water is routed. It really takes away a bit of your holiday experience
Then stay in your country, by traveling to Spain you become part of the problem
People need to eat. You can first let go off Tourism, flying no meat every day.
the problem is... when it rains it will flood. climate is going extreme.
no matter where we are, everyone has to be conscious to save water, even we don't have waterlack problem. It's our mission to protect our earth.