Very wet here in Ireland as well. The farmers should be starting to cut grass for silage in about a month, though the fields are full of rushes and very little grass. I have an acre that I've been planting Eucalyptus on (carbon capture); the grass areas are mostly moss now.
In Portugal we also had a critical drought situation recently but somehow for the past few weeks it started raining heavily and fortunately most dams are up to level now . Sending my prayers to Catalunia 🙏🏻
Surely they can use permaculture principles suited to the area. Start something, swales, ponds, etc. come on many places have restored water to dry lands. It can be done.@@portox777
Here in Barcelona i has rained a lot, but like 10 minutes a day. One day we had a heavy rain, but you cannot cover 2 years of dought with one day of rain. Today, our dams are 14,2% filled and we are in the middle of the rain season :(
Why Alfalfa? I mean it's a very water intensive crop.... And to feed the cows? Won't the cows be ok with something much less water intensive? Like local grasses for example?
Why cows first of all, animal agriculture is extremely water intensive. It takes 20x times more water per calorie to produce beef compared to cereals. And thats especially true in Spain. 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. 66% of the cultivated area is dedicated to producing feed for livestock and then some more water and space for the actual livestock.
The world needs to wake up and realize meat consumption is a luxury... throughout our entire history as a species it was a "nice to have" - we need to transition to an 80% vegetarian diet if we want the planet to survive. Current habits are unsustainable that is clear to see.
Why alfalfa? Because, with the usual rain regime, it is the wealthiest crop to cultivate. At least it was before the huge amount of hotels that there are now. It's about the profitability of farming. Alfalfa is the local grass that feeds the cows at lower cost (when there is the usual rain).
It's kinda ironic an animal farmer was featured in a news story about water shortage as animal husbandry uses the most amount of water in agriculture and provides a fraction of calories and nutrients compared to plant foods. Using water so inefficiently is a huge waste of resources.
I mean that’s true but he just supplies the demand. People want meat, it’s not his fault there is a demand. Once more people switch a more plant based diet, farmers will transition as well.
The rain feeds the grass anyway so what are you talking about? Maybe south Spain waters that way but not Northern areas, I am in market gardening so I know about food production.
@@bertibear1300 are you sure? Cows drink 80-160 liters of water daily. More during hot weather and when they are moving around. For a herd of 100 cows that's 8000-16000 liters of water DAILY! Where does that water come from in a drought?
Yet the Mediterranean has its population centres along the coast line or quite close to coast lines, so they should have fairly easy access to water, (even thou it will have to be desalinated), and thus could, in theory cut it's consumption of fresh water quite significantly in industrial and domestic use by mixing water from existing sources with desalinated water. Then the treated wastewater can be used for irrigation or at least would increase, even thou marginally, flows in streams and rivers in given region.
The main issue with desalination plants is that they use a lot more energy than traditional water treatment methods plus they produce toxic waste harmful for marine wildlife.
It's funny, last year they cut and even diverted rivers for agriculture that should also pass through Portugal and said that the water was theirs alone and the Portuguese solve their problems with the lack of water. This year Portugal has full dams and the Spanish don't. And now they say they have the right to water from Portuguese dams. Good luck Spain with the summer
How can you get to 16% capacity and only then start talking about emergency measures?? Can plot these trends out in a simple spreadsheet and they should have been planning for this when it dropped below 50%.... The world is mad and corrupt.
Farmers lobby is extremely powerful and short-sighted. They oppose any measure. Even the Netherlands had a drought last 2 years. Yes, the country with water everywhere had a drought. Because farmers demand the fields are pumped bone-dry in winter so they can dump manure everywhere with the heaviest of machines. We keep pumping while the natural water table replenishes, then when it naturally drains in spring and summer we've a drought.
We have the same issues here in Andalusia. Farmers locally plant water intensive non-native crops because they're less work and more profitable. Government (at every level from local, provincial and regional) fails to enforce the laws already in place about water use, and fails to invest anything in water management for 15 years despite population increases, increased tourism and farmers planting more and more unsuitable crops - and then suggest help from "Europe" (ie taxpayers elsewhere) to "compensate" them.
Years of inaction and inadequate valuation of water, etc and other systemic issues have resulted in this situation -- a depleted environment and a fragile economic and social situation. It's not like sustainability researchers and scientists haven't been trying to warn the world. They warned about these kinds of things, and the risks of conflicts over water and other natural resources. Short-sightedness and greed is now resulting in major risks and big challenges for people, which of course, cannot be solved by themselves, because everything is connected. No living being lives without water. Addressing this at a regional and international level with input from locals is a good start. Yet, a long-term view is needed, as well as system risk-aware plan....
The Catalans complain that they pay a lot of taxes but then this money does not return to Catalonia in infrastructures and services. Spain (España) never has money for Catalonia.
I feel sorry for the farmer, but at the same time if people start to eat less meat (beef in particular) that would be better both for the animals and the climate.
@@NWer-c5u Those are very niche areas though, the side of a mountain for example with sheep. Even then this livestock needs imported feed most of the time. Meat consumption has been know for decades to be one of the most wasteful and environmentally damaging practices - this is just a fact. Historically meat consumption was a luxury for our ancestors - you were lucky to get anything at all. Rather than wasting 90% of the water creating crops for livestock it could be arable land for people with far less water use. However, profit incentives and big industry will fight any change tooth and nail.
@@__Wanderer and not all places are the same, I eat white tail deer, fish, and veggie dishes too. Omnivore. The deer just do their thing in forests around here without extra feed.
@@__Wanderer Imagine actually believing that meat consumption was rare and/or a luxury for most of our ancestors. Here's what the homie Caesar has to say about the people north of the Rhine "For agriculture they have no enthusiasm, and the greater part of their food consists of milk, cheese, and flesh." What's that? "the greater part" consists of animal products? My man is aware of profit incentives and big industry, what do you think has a higher profit margin for big industry, milk or oat water?
Europe is going to have to develope a system of rain catchment and irrigation to ensure when it does rain farmers have access to that water through the year. The cost of climate change will end up costing more than the profits the fossil fuel industry currently enjoy, and we will just have to accept that fact and get prepared with the correct infrastructure investments.
Europe (parts of) had those systems for centuries and they were only gradually removed in 19th and 20th century, together with channelization of rivers. So perhaps restoration could be sufficient. Another option would be to deregulate and let farmers to deal with it without state interventions, I would say that most of the farmers would be able to implement some water harvesting projects themselves, but perhaps can't due to excessive regulations. What is needed is basically to slow down the water and keep it upper parts of respective watersheds, that can be done by various things like reforestation or construction of ponds on small streams and by their restoration to more natural state. But I think that is not exactly possible to do now due to various necessary permits and studies that have to be obtained (but that most likely depend on the country)
- We live in the same climate as it was 5 million years ago - I have an explanation regarding the cause of the climate change and global warming, it is the travel of the universe to the deep past since May 10, 2010. Each day starting May 10, 2010 takes us one thousand years to the past of the universe. Today April 13, 2024 the state of our universe is the same as it was 5 million and 87 thousand years ago. On october 13, 2026 the state of our universe will be at the point 6 million years in the past. On june 04, 2051 the state of our universe will be at the point 15 million in the past. On june 28, 2092 the state of our universe will be at the point 30 million years in the past. On april 02, 2147 the state of our universe will be at the point 50 million years in the past. The result is that the universe is heading back to the point where it started and today we live in the same climate as it was 5 million years ago. Mohamed BOUHAMIDA.
Farmers have to adopt to growing millets and other crops that require little water but produce a lot of protein. Growing alfalfa first, then feeding to cows, not to forget their own water consumption for drinking and cleanups etc. is so unnecessarily water intensive. Just grow more plants. Farmers in India are switching in big numbers to millets after droughts there and it's starting to pay off.
Permaculture and water collection would be a solution that works in even really dry deserts and can be made by everyone... But no one seems to care - only blame the politicians
Alfalfa is the most productive crop to feed the milk cows with so little space and with the usual rain it's enough. And it's produced where it's consumed. it's about the profitability of farming (cheap/expensive).
And not even mentioning the causes. Sad documentary failure. No banning fossil fuels that has caused rapid warming and drought. Nothing about emissions that most tourists makes by flying to the area. Just sad failure from the News makers. You needed only 1 or 2 sentences to make this report way better.
@@simonpannett8810 yep, and it's been right there on the Medi, running fine since 1972. Perfectly placed to desalinate mass amounts of water as part of the cooling. Perfect match.
There is simply not enough money to do everything. If you just let the market run its course, the money will flow into tourism because there will be more profit there. Politics must intervene because in the long term agriculture is more important than tourism.
Not if someone else can supply your needs. If tourists bring in enough money they can just buy meat from elsewhere and use less water intensive crops in that area. This is why greenhouse farming is big in many regions now. Less water, higher value crops. I'm sure the UK could supply all the water intensive items they need we are literally swimming in water at the moment.
You can get our rain, it’s been raining for 1,5 year now in He Netherlands, I hate it, I pray that God will send all the rain clouds for this month to this poor farmer.
There are lots of things you can do to help prevent drought. Building berms and swales on contour to capture and slow rainfall and runoff would do a lot. That alongside with permaculture would be an answer. They can't make rain, but they efficiently manage what you get. They and other systems such as coffer dams in dry stream beds would help. Also building more bikeways along these systems would help tourism and reduce pollution while increasing tourism. Getting off fossil fuels is the ideal. More high speed trains and light rail are another answer along with more roundabouts so traffic flows more freely without unnecessary stopping. You save gas and it reduces noise while making streets safer. Runoff from streets to shade trees and green walls would help as well.
The Catalans complain that they pay a lot of taxes but then this money does not return to Catalonia in infrastructures and services. Spain (España) never has money for Catalonia.
First they destroy the natural enviroment that surrounds them, wich has evolved to survive in Iberia's specific climate, then they're surprised that nature disapears leaving them without water or money. Hypocrisy, in southern Spain they will reap what they've sown.
In the 80s I visited califonia, they told be they were in a 6 year drought , even then they could pump water 200 miles , (it amazed me being from UK , where you only know its summer because the rain is warm )
@@MegaDeano1963 I'm from the Netherlands and live in Valencia. Last and this year we didn't have any meanngful rain early spring. With so much sun Spain could install solar powered water filtration systems.
The Catalans complain that they pay a lot of taxes but then this money does not return to Catalonia in infrastructures and services. Catalan government converts seawater and sewerwater to fresh water but this year has not been enough. The drought has been too strong. Spain (España) never has money for Catalonia.
The jet stream is in a different place , so less rain ? Technology exists to pump water anywhere if its important . Catalonia could use its sun hours to generate solar, to pump water . Or to desalinate water . Truth is that so much beef around is it worth it . If I was to worry about a world issue I'd be more worried about the crops in Ukraine.
It's not expensive to pump water in tubes, but the Foreign Office of Spain does not consider necessary pump water from Marseille, from the Rhone river. There's no water under Catalonia.
How have convinced Antoni Quintana to be called Toni and to speak in Spanish? Castilian Spanish is clearly not his mother tongue (as usual in his town) but Catalonian as all his family and the elder people of Figueres. Are you (DW, @dwnews) trying to hide the language and culture of the country of Mr. Qintana?
The amount of water stays the same, but the amount of people, crops, animals and tourists increases year on year. But let's point at climate change... Before you go nuts I live in Spain. Andalucia. We have these problems but here we are spending billions on fixing it and I predict within 5 years we are solid.
The Catalans complain that they pay a lot of taxes but then this money does not return to Catalonia in infrastructures and services. Spain (España) never has money for Catalonia. PP never has been in power in Catalunya and when PSOE was in power (7 years) they only wanted to milk the cow (they left a huge amount of debt and a lot of infrastructure left to do, like L9 of the underground, not finished yet 20 years later).
The Catalans complain that they pay a lot of taxes but then this money does not return to Catalonia in infrastructures and services. Catalan farmers would pay any price for water but the reservoirs are empty (for 2 years in a row). Spain (España) never has money for Catalonia.
Government has to interfere, whether people like it or not. Not every area will have a successful rain time each year and if the area is consuming more water than it could potentially consume, it will become a nightmare to manage. That is why we have governments, open discussions between two areas and make planning, execute projects.
Id say imagine not caring in the farming industry but then I remembered they do care and its planned to make you into their slaves but yall not ready for that conversation 😂.
it`s easy, earth needs co2, the only thing is the earth it`s moving is trajectory and only because the diggings in the planet earth ( we dig for gold, iron, charcoal, mines and other things, we must understand that digging on every each part of the planet will make the earth change trajectory, and trust me there are a lot, that`s why the earth is moving the trajectory and the climate obs. is affected :) not because of animals and other things like they say :)
The world needs to transition to a vegetarian diet. Meat, historically was always a luxury. It is clear it is simply not sustainable to waste so much water when it could easily be land to feed us, not the cows.
@@NickBirdManeS tell that to the Rhino / buffalo / elephant. ;) Nothing wrong with lentils / beans / chickpeas - and since when is everyone on the planet a weight lifter?
What we need is for other people to stop tellin people how to live or what they can or cant do. Just because you perceive a problem doesnt make it true. Especially to the scale you're claiming. Start saying what you're saying when theres 20Million head of cattle in the US. Not a healthy 95Million. Push on the greedy rich to subsidize desalination of water. Look how you immediately want to tell the masses what to do. Instead of saying hey govt. Desal the water. "Oh Catalonia is in a drought and its the first time modern humans have seen this" give my a break you fear mongering, absolutist, doomsdayers
@@NickBirdManeS Do you know how expensive desalination plants are? I guess you don't mind your taxes going up massively and environmental damage resulting from these plants. A study from 2020 found 41% of global* water goes to crops that will feed animals...A single pound of meat requires 2400 gallons of water to produce. These are facts, you can look them up. This is not opinion or "doomsday" these are facts not a "perceived problem" but an actual problem...As is evident from the massive water shortage they are experiencing, one that is "the worst on record". This isn't normal... this is THE worst in human history for this area...
I find it fascinating how they had recent rain and they have actually filled these reservoirs. It's like someone was interested that there must be an emergency, you know all a show and DW wants to promote it.
@@edmerc92 If they were really in need: Sure. But this is just lazyness. They could pay if they wanted to. They just find it more convenient that we pay for it.
If you are still a climate denier it shows you might have room temperature IQ at this point. It is just fact, denial of it now is just foolish and nonsensical.
We got all the rain in Scotland. Our fields are drowning and can’t take anymore water
Very wet here in Ireland as well.
The farmers should be starting to cut grass for silage in about a month, though the fields are full of rushes and very little grass.
I have an acre that I've been planting Eucalyptus on (carbon capture); the grass areas are mostly moss now.
Same here in the Midwest US
Its all by design.. the weather's being controlled
Same here in the Netherlands. Thinking about emigration to dry and sunny spain😂
Famine and floods eh
In Portugal we also had a critical drought situation recently but somehow for the past few weeks it started raining heavily and fortunately most dams are up to level now . Sending my prayers to Catalunia 🙏🏻
Yup. The issue in spain is that they can open wells without permission... so under there is no water .. every time it rains it goes straight down
we now have technology to manipulate the clouds to rain
@@draco2xx wtf
Surely they can use permaculture principles suited to the area. Start something, swales, ponds, etc. come on many places have restored water to dry lands. It can be done.@@portox777
Here in Barcelona i has rained a lot, but like 10 minutes a day. One day we had a heavy rain, but you cannot cover 2 years of dought with one day of rain. Today, our dams are 14,2% filled and we are in the middle of the rain season :(
Why Alfalfa? I mean it's a very water intensive crop.... And to feed the cows? Won't the cows be ok with something much less water intensive? Like local grasses for example?
Why cows first of all, animal agriculture is extremely water intensive. It takes 20x times more water per calorie to produce beef compared to cereals. And thats especially true in Spain. 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.
66% of the cultivated area is dedicated to producing feed for livestock and then some more water and space for the actual livestock.
The world needs to wake up and realize meat consumption is a luxury... throughout our entire history as a species it was a "nice to have" - we need to transition to an 80% vegetarian diet if we want the planet to survive. Current habits are unsustainable that is clear to see.
Good questions.
More people can be fed by creating plant-based food rather than meat.
Why alfalfa? Because, with the usual rain regime, it is the wealthiest crop to cultivate. At least it was before the huge amount of hotels that there are now.
It's about the profitability of farming. Alfalfa is the local grass that feeds the cows at lower cost (when there is the usual rain).
@@jaumejoseoranies7948sadly I think the old usual is a bit different to the new usual amount
It's kinda ironic an animal farmer was featured in a news story about water shortage as animal husbandry uses the most amount of water in agriculture and provides a fraction of calories and nutrients compared to plant foods. Using water so inefficiently is a huge waste of resources.
Exactly
I mean that’s true but he just supplies the demand. People want meat, it’s not his fault there is a demand. Once more people switch a more plant based diet, farmers will transition as well.
The rain feeds the grass anyway so what are you talking about?
Maybe south Spain waters that way but not Northern areas, I am in market gardening so I know about food production.
@@bertibear1300 are you sure? Cows drink 80-160 liters of water daily. More during hot weather and when they are moving around. For a herd of 100 cows that's 8000-16000 liters of water DAILY! Where does that water come from in a drought?
Whole Mediterranean is facing this problem, its already april and soil started to crack because of drought
Yet the Mediterranean has its population centres along the coast line or quite close to coast lines, so they should have fairly easy access to water, (even thou it will have to be desalinated), and thus could, in theory cut it's consumption of fresh water quite significantly in industrial and domestic use by mixing water from existing sources with desalinated water. Then the treated wastewater can be used for irrigation or at least would increase, even thou marginally, flows in streams and rivers in given region.
The main issue with desalination plants is that they use a lot more energy than traditional water treatment methods plus they produce toxic waste harmful for marine wildlife.
Which toxic?
@@heart-of-people Google about desalination plants
Isn't water desalination too expensive for cattle? Local politicians or EU money can't make it rain.
For irrigation of crops, perhaps yes, as drinking water, most likely no, it should cost about $1 per cubic metre.
Planting trees helps, cows can live forest
Poor cows!
How many years we have been seeing this scenario and nothing has been done…humanity needs to pay harder to “ learn”. Covid didn’t teach us…
And nothing will. Civilization will collapse in the coming one or two decades. Prepare for a shitshow.
What does this have to do with Covid?
It's funny, last year they cut and even diverted rivers for agriculture that should also pass through Portugal and said that the water was theirs alone and the Portuguese solve their problems with the lack of water. This year Portugal has full dams and the Spanish don't. And now they say they have the right to water from Portuguese dams. Good luck Spain with the summer
We should build a pipeline to you from the UK our crops are bring ruined with too much rain.
Spain would have to pay and such infrastructure would cost billions sadly, money they don't have.
The weather is being manipulated to create all this..
@@sol19539 by whom is it being manipulated? If you are referring to the 8 billion people pumping out Co2 /methane in the atmosphere - you are correct.
@@sol19539 could be...saw some info the other day about how the our water is increasingly full of aluminium
How can you get to 16% capacity and only then start talking about emergency measures?? Can plot these trends out in a simple spreadsheet and they should have been planning for this when it dropped below 50%.... The world is mad and corrupt.
People live in hope.
Unfortunately hope won't solve climate change.
And neither will God.
So we got to change our ways.
Farmers lobby is extremely powerful and short-sighted. They oppose any measure.
Even the Netherlands had a drought last 2 years. Yes, the country with water everywhere had a drought. Because farmers demand the fields are pumped bone-dry in winter so they can dump manure everywhere with the heaviest of machines. We keep pumping while the natural water table replenishes, then when it naturally drains in spring and summer we've a drought.
We have the same issues here in Andalusia. Farmers locally plant water intensive non-native crops because they're less work and more profitable. Government (at every level from local, provincial and regional) fails to enforce the laws already in place about water use, and fails to invest anything in water management for 15 years despite population increases, increased tourism and farmers planting more and more unsuitable crops - and then suggest help from "Europe" (ie taxpayers elsewhere) to "compensate" them.
This is a positive of living in Wales, we have surplus liquid gold.
In México we are living with the same problema 😢
Have you got a el Nino causing you problems ? That may fade this year
Too many hotels , too many tourists. They empty underground water. Wrong management.
Farmers need to stop wasteful irrigation of unsuitable crops and livestock.
The only way to be always prevented from random drought is never to cultivate anything.
Years of inaction and inadequate valuation of water, etc and other systemic issues have resulted in this situation -- a depleted environment and a fragile economic and social situation.
It's not like sustainability researchers and scientists haven't been trying to warn the world. They warned about these kinds of things, and the risks of conflicts over water and other natural resources.
Short-sightedness and greed is now resulting in major risks and big challenges for people, which of course, cannot be solved by themselves, because everything is connected. No living being lives without water.
Addressing this at a regional and international level with input from locals is a good start. Yet, a long-term view is needed, as well as system risk-aware plan....
The Catalans complain that they pay a lot of taxes but then this money does not return to Catalonia in infrastructures and services. Spain (España) never has money for Catalonia.
I feel sorry for the farmer, but at the same time if people start to eat less meat (beef in particular) that would be better both for the animals and the climate.
There are many areas that don't support farming, but can support livestock. If it can be farmed, it's being farmed.
Plant protein is toxic so not an option.
@@NWer-c5u Those are very niche areas though, the side of a mountain for example with sheep. Even then this livestock needs imported feed most of the time. Meat consumption has been know for decades to be one of the most wasteful and environmentally damaging practices - this is just a fact. Historically meat consumption was a luxury for our ancestors - you were lucky to get anything at all. Rather than wasting 90% of the water creating crops for livestock it could be arable land for people with far less water use. However, profit incentives and big industry will fight any change tooth and nail.
@@__Wanderer and not all places are the same, I eat white tail deer, fish, and veggie dishes too. Omnivore. The deer just do their thing in forests around here without extra feed.
@@__Wanderer Imagine actually believing that meat consumption was rare and/or a luxury for most of our ancestors. Here's what the homie Caesar has to say about the people north of the Rhine "For agriculture they have no enthusiasm, and the greater part of their food consists of milk, cheese, and flesh."
What's that? "the greater part" consists of animal products?
My man is aware of profit incentives and big industry, what do you think has a higher profit margin for big industry, milk or oat water?
Europe is going to have to develope a system of rain catchment and irrigation to ensure when it does rain farmers have access to that water through the year.
The cost of climate change will end up costing more than the profits the fossil fuel industry currently enjoy, and we will just have to accept that fact and get prepared with the correct infrastructure investments.
Europe (parts of) had those systems for centuries and they were only gradually removed in 19th and 20th century, together with channelization of rivers. So perhaps restoration could be sufficient. Another option would be to deregulate and let farmers to deal with it without state interventions, I would say that most of the farmers would be able to implement some water harvesting projects themselves, but perhaps can't due to excessive regulations.
What is needed is basically to slow down the water and keep it upper parts of respective watersheds, that can be done by various things like reforestation or construction of ponds on small streams and by their restoration to more natural state. But I think that is not exactly possible to do now due to various necessary permits and studies that have to be obtained (but that most likely depend on the country)
Build fresh water pipelines from northern Europe.
Bruh, the Rhein is also drying up during summer..
- We live in the same climate as it was 5 million years ago -
I have an explanation regarding the cause of the climate change and global warming, it is the travel of the universe to the deep past since May 10, 2010.
Each day starting May 10, 2010 takes us one thousand years to the past of the universe.
Today April 13, 2024 the state of our universe is the same as it was 5 million and 87 thousand years ago.
On october 13, 2026 the state of our universe will be at the point 6 million years in the past.
On june 04, 2051 the state of our universe will be at the point 15 million in the past.
On june 28, 2092 the state of our universe will be at the point 30 million years in the past.
On april 02, 2147 the state of our universe will be at the point 50 million years in the past.
The result is that the universe is heading back to the point where it started and today we live in the same climate as it was 5 million years ago.
Mohamed BOUHAMIDA.
Farmers have to adopt to growing millets and other crops that require little water but produce a lot of protein. Growing alfalfa first, then feeding to cows, not to forget their own water consumption for drinking and cleanups etc. is so unnecessarily water intensive. Just grow more plants. Farmers in India are switching in big numbers to millets after droughts there and it's starting to pay off.
all countries need dealination plants
Permaculture and water collection would be a solution that works in even really dry deserts and can be made by everyone... But no one seems to care - only blame the politicians
europe must plan a water conductor for those drowning to those without
Alfalfa is water intensive why not shift to cone
Alfalfa is the most productive crop to feed the milk cows with so little space and with the usual rain it's enough.
And it's produced where it's consumed.
it's about the profitability of farming (cheap/expensive).
And not even mentioning the causes. Sad documentary failure.
No banning fossil fuels that has caused rapid warming and drought.
Nothing about emissions that most tourists makes by flying to the area.
Just sad failure from the News makers. You needed only 1 or 2 sentences to make this report way better.
Do you want some of ours? We are sick of it raining over here. We are not going to have crops because its too wet.
It's all by design
Uk?
floods in russia and drought in spain.......
funny how we can move oil over great distance.....
And DW news completely ignored the Spanish & Irish PMs press conference. What a disappointment !
DW only goal is not to promote Spain in a good light.
I'd imagine Vandellòs Nuclear Power Plant right there could run a huge desalination plant.
Nuclear Energy requires huge amounts of water to keep cool!!
@@simonpannett8810 yep, and it's been right there on the Medi, running fine since 1972. Perfectly placed to desalinate mass amounts of water as part of the cooling. Perfect match.
There is simply not enough money to do everything. If you just let the market run its course, the money will flow into tourism because there will be more profit there. Politics must intervene because in the long term agriculture is more important than tourism.
Not if someone else can supply your needs.
If tourists bring in enough money they can just buy meat from elsewhere and use less water intensive crops in that area.
This is why greenhouse farming is big in many regions now.
Less water, higher value crops.
I'm sure the UK could supply all the water intensive items they need we are literally swimming in water at the moment.
This is when he needs to organise ahead and store hay and feed for the summer for his cows before prices skyrocket.
Invest in water capture. There will be short periods of extreme waterfall then long droughts.
You can get our rain, it’s been raining for 1,5 year now in He Netherlands, I hate it, I pray that God will send all the rain clouds for this month to this poor farmer.
There are lots of things you can do to help prevent drought. Building berms and swales on contour to capture and slow rainfall and runoff would do a lot. That alongside with permaculture would be an answer. They can't make rain, but they efficiently manage what you get. They and other systems such as coffer dams in dry stream beds would help. Also building more bikeways along these systems would help tourism and reduce pollution while increasing tourism. Getting off fossil fuels is the ideal. More high speed trains and light rail are another answer along with more roundabouts so traffic flows more freely without unnecessary stopping. You save gas and it reduces noise while making streets safer. Runoff from streets to shade trees and green walls would help as well.
The Catalans complain that they pay a lot of taxes but then this money does not return to Catalonia in infrastructures and services. Spain (España) never has money for Catalonia.
First they destroy the natural enviroment that surrounds them, wich has evolved to survive in Iberia's specific climate, then they're surprised that nature disapears leaving them without water or money.
Hypocrisy, in southern Spain they will reap what they've sown.
Why not build a pipeline from northen Europe? Convert seawater.
In the 80s I visited califonia, they told be they were in a 6 year drought , even then they could pump water 200 miles , (it amazed me being from UK , where you only know its summer because the rain is warm )
@@MegaDeano1963 I'm from the Netherlands and live in Valencia. Last and this year we didn't have any meanngful rain early spring. With so much sun Spain could install solar powered water filtration systems.
The Catalans complain that they pay a lot of taxes but then this money does not return to Catalonia in infrastructures and services.
Catalan government converts seawater and sewerwater to fresh water but this year has not been enough. The drought has been too strong.
Spain (España) never has money for Catalonia.
'Only god can help us'. If only there was a way to survive without growing water hungry crops to feed cows........
Maybe, just maybe its time to enact climate change legislation to reduce the impact of what is coming
its also vy hot and ry here in the philippines
CLOUD SEEDING😅
I wouldn't breed cows where there is so little water.
Do not, my friends, become addicted to water. It will take hold of you, and you will resent its absence.
You need water to survive. Spain is becoming a sand desert.
climate change effect every single sector every single corner in the planet.which is pretty sad to us.😢
So easy to disprove that statement
This is just the beginning. Stay tuned.
Why stay?
export rainwater to Catalunya from areas of europe that are flooded
A nation that is against my nation, can't feel sorry.
Whats your nation lady?
The jet stream is in a different place , so less rain ? Technology exists to pump water anywhere if its important . Catalonia could use its sun hours to generate solar, to pump water . Or to desalinate water . Truth is that so much beef around is it worth it . If I was to worry about a world issue I'd be more worried about the crops in Ukraine.
It's not expensive to pump water in tubes, but the Foreign Office of Spain does not consider necessary pump water from Marseille, from the Rhone river. There's no water under Catalonia.
Over 8 bilions people... is affecting our ecosystem...
Heavy rain for the end of April
How have convinced Antoni Quintana to be called Toni and to speak in Spanish?
Castilian Spanish is clearly not his mother tongue (as usual in his town) but Catalonian as all his family and the elder people of Figueres.
Are you (DW, @dwnews) trying to hide the language and culture of the country of Mr. Qintana?
Hi Russian bot, you guys still have time to spare to push the anti-Spanish narrative?
The amount of water stays the same, but the amount of people, crops, animals and tourists increases year on year.
But let's point at climate change...
Before you go nuts I live in Spain. Andalucia. We have these problems but here we are spending billions on fixing it and I predict within 5 years we are solid.
The Catalans complain that they pay a lot of taxes but then this money does not return to Catalonia in infrastructures and services. Spain (España) never has money for Catalonia.
PP never has been in power in Catalunya and when PSOE was in power (7 years) they only wanted to milk the cow (they left a huge amount of debt and a lot of infrastructure left to do, like L9 of the underground, not finished yet 20 years later).
Spain's population isn't growing much, if at all. The problem is a sudden lack of rain these last 2-3 years.
@@edmerc92 Spain population isn't growing much. But Catalonia's population is...
Catalunia in a "rain shadow" and will have to look to de salination but at a cost. Agriculture needs to pay the correct price for their water!!
The Catalans complain that they pay a lot of taxes but then this money does not return to Catalonia in infrastructures and services.
Catalan farmers would pay any price for water but the reservoirs are empty (for 2 years in a row).
Spain (España) never has money for Catalonia.
Every farmer should dig his own water ponds to be independent from government bureaucracy. People need to take the future into their own hands.
When a pond is dug below the sea level (in Figueres, Alt Empordà) usually salty water appears. Not useful for irrigation.
The lack of rain is depleting groundwater resources as well.
Government has to interfere, whether people like it or not. Not every area will have a successful rain time each year and if the area is consuming more water than it could potentially consume, it will become a nightmare to manage. That is why we have governments, open discussions between two areas and make planning, execute projects.
The Iberian peninsula will be uninhabitable by 2030.
Geo engineering is present above your heads.Look up and see why.
less cow farming, more ecoargo food farming he will have enough water...
Why they dont build dams?
But please give more money to Ukraine!
But I thought weather manipulation was possible?
Id say imagine not caring in the farming industry but then I remembered they do care and its planned to make you into their slaves but yall not ready for that conversation 😂.
lack of forests .erosion.see amazon without forest.a parched land.
Soy Catalán y todo lo que está diciendo es absolutamente Falso.
it`s easy, earth needs co2, the only thing is the earth it`s moving is trajectory and only because the diggings in the planet earth ( we dig for gold, iron, charcoal, mines and other things, we must understand that digging on every each part of the planet will make the earth change trajectory, and trust me there are a lot, that`s why the earth is moving the trajectory and the climate obs. is affected :) not because of animals and other things like they say :)
Well your going to have to water your field with bottled water.
Greece no rain one year
Instead of mining "bitcoin" divert energy to desalination efforts.
Why spain people do not study hard to bulid big industry?
Wondering where all the 'cloud seeding' comments are.
This is waht cliamte cahneg looks like. Freak occurancies more often, then regularly, later every year.
You can have a few buckets of uk water, we have got loads of the stuff. It hasn’t stopped raining here for approximately 10 months now🐟🤿
DW also responsible for this disaster
The world needs to transition to a vegetarian diet. Meat, historically was always a luxury. It is clear it is simply not sustainable to waste so much water when it could easily be land to feed us, not the cows.
😂😂😂 never gonna happen bud. Cant get the gains in the weight room from plants. Would have to eat 3 times as much plant protein
@@NickBirdManeS tell that to the Rhino / buffalo / elephant. ;) Nothing wrong with lentils / beans / chickpeas - and since when is everyone on the planet a weight lifter?
What we need is for other people to stop tellin people how to live or what they can or cant do. Just because you perceive a problem doesnt make it true. Especially to the scale you're claiming.
Start saying what you're saying when theres 20Million head of cattle in the US. Not a healthy 95Million. Push on the greedy rich to subsidize desalination of water. Look how you immediately want to tell the masses what to do. Instead of saying hey govt. Desal the water. "Oh Catalonia is in a drought and its the first time modern humans have seen this" give my a break you fear mongering, absolutist, doomsdayers
@@NickBirdManeS Do you know how expensive desalination plants are? I guess you don't mind your taxes going up massively and environmental damage resulting from these plants. A study from 2020 found 41% of global* water goes to crops that will feed animals...A single pound of meat requires 2400 gallons of water to produce. These are facts, you can look them up. This is not opinion or "doomsday" these are facts not a "perceived problem" but an actual problem...As is evident from the massive water shortage they are experiencing, one that is "the worst on record". This isn't normal... this is THE worst in human history for this area...
@@__Wanderer you're right.
I find it fascinating how they had recent rain and they have actually filled these reservoirs. It's like someone was interested that there must be an emergency, you know all a show and DW wants to promote it.
You don't know what you are talking about. It rained for 3 days max and it's far from enough.
It will take *months* of heavy rain to fill the reservoirs. Not a couple days.
Move over to Orenburg, it's flooded here.
As a Dane I feel no responsibility for Spain's water problem. Why on earth do you expect us to pay for it?
You may not be responsible, but isn't it a good thing to help out your European brethren? Do you want parts of the continent to just collapse?
@@edmerc92 If they were really in need: Sure. But this is just lazyness. They could pay if they wanted to. They just find it more convenient that we pay for it.
Try technology.......watch desert countries.......am sorry but I feel they have not tried.....we could have already heard........ sorry.......
This is not a calamity even in the slightest sense.
the apocalypse
Strange it rained all winter in Spain. We did not get anywhere nearly as much in East Europe…is it due to too few dams? Is it only in Catalonia?
It barely rained in Catalonia, hence why there is a drought.
Water wars lol
Blame the governments for burning fossil fuels
This documentary for politicians not for ordinary people like me . ..
Maybe get rid of the cows first?
Dont rely on god.
Stop manipulate the weather... ask your gouvernement.....
Beavers beavers beavers beavers beavers beavers.
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Droughts are as natural as massive rainfalls. As soon as the RAIN starts again DW will be trying to scrub this silliness from the net.
yeah a 5 year drought is normal.
Both are natural, and both are getting more regular and extreme
There is no more time for idiotic takes like this. Sorry, but this is not a "im right" debatte. We are losing our base for survival now.
No 👎 my dear....this time is to late...! But you will see 👀 and feel it soon....!! " Point off no return " is past....
If you are still a climate denier it shows you might have room temperature IQ at this point. It is just fact, denial of it now is just foolish and nonsensical.
Unfortunately, God can't help. Men can, if only they would change their fossil fuel obsession.
Spain-occupied CATALONIA
You'll be glad for Spains help with water
All Colonialists do so.
@@colleenhoward-tabron5359 if they would ever help, we would see it already. Spaniards will never help... You really know nothing....
Afrikan problem
too many illegal immigrants using water
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Look at this guy auditioning for being an anchor at FoxNews