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- The number of people dying across Europe because of rising temperatures has increased by almost a third in the past two decades.
Authors of a newly published report say 2023 saw a record number of days with 'extreme heat stress' - this affected people across all parts of the continent. But last year was not just hotter, it was also wetter. The whole of Europe was drenched with about 7% more rainfall than usual.
And to complicate things even further, not all regions have been getting more rain. As DW climate reporter Louise Osborne reports from north-eastern Spain, serious water shortages have left some people in the tourism industry fighting for their livelihoods.
For more on this, we talk to DW’s Louise Osborne.
#Spain #Drought #Watershortages
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Well, they could start by restricting Golf country club’s indiscriminate irrigation, the contrast is unbelievable in Terrasa during the summer.
one of tens of thousands in one area...not much of a difference, there needs to be wide sweeping changes throughout several sectors minimum to make a difference,farming,industry, certain sporting or tourism activities, crooked water companies controlling the selling distribution rights, mega rich individuals and their projects etc, many are involved.
@@bloodlove93 wrong. Often Golf courses take more water than the adjesent city. Look up Marrakesh where the golf courses take a looot more water than the whole capital of Marocco!!!
They could start by building new desalination plants backed by nuclear power.
Recycling water would definitely be a good solution for us!!
"water treatment plant" usa.
Spain also has a lot of water intensive agriculture in regions where its unsustainable. Not to mention a huge problem with illegal water well drilling.
In recent years, avocados have been touted as a superfood. And so Spanish farmers cut down much of their traditional, xeric-adapted olive groves (olives are considered a health food), and replaced them with avocado plantations, but coming from subtropical wet regions, require a lot of irrigated water in Spain.
Over tourism is not sustainable.
The rain in Spain falls mainly in the plain.
In the South of Vietnam has not have rain for 2 months, several towns there are shortage of drinking water as well.
Wow, thanks for letting us know, the Western media has ignored that. I wish you well from the U.K.
Are you a Vietnam citizen?
in philippine we haven't have rain for 4 months
Very dry conditions across southeastern Europe as well. We hope that May and June will bring us loads of rain.
For a veteran of drought in the US West, yes water saving measures get intense. Agriculture remains the largest consumer of water though and I’ve grown to doubt reporting completeness if it fails to mention it. Alfalfa is a water intensive crop which is exported or feeds cattle for export. These farms have senior water rights, meaning they don’t have to care how much they use.
In Catalonia all farmers are under strict water ratios. Many had to change crops, installed dripping methods that go directly to the trees or abandoned their farms altogether
@@o0laieta0o At least then, they got sorted. Things are not so in the States.
Revoke,suspend licenses for farms growing alfalfa for export till the situation improves. 🤔🤷
@@Martin_Priesthood there’s no license governing what farmers grow or where they sell.
@@GhostOnTheHalfShell 👍👌
Doesn't the rain in Spain fall mainly in the plains?
the northwest coast gets rained on most regularly
Bring temperatures back down again?
Simply not possible. Temperatures will only go up. Unless the future she is referring to is very, very distant, and by "very" I mean hundreds or thousands of years
Why not just hold the privatized water companies to account, for not properly investing and planning. If enough water is falling in certain areas, but is not getting to others, then that is because of poor management and greedy stake holders. At the end it’s the consumer who suffers with global warming preached at them to make them feel guilty, while water companies sidestep accountability though mismanagement.
Manage the problem, build catch basins and new irrigation channels. This will cost less than the economic hit of constant water stress. There are some very good methods for water management that don't create additional problems; TH-cam has free videos with these kind of techniques.
Day 5 in Kolkata, India with peak daytime temperature (actual) reaching 42 - 45C, humidity makes it worse. Next 5 days are showing the continuation of heatwave with no relief😢
42! It occasionally gets that hot in my part of the Western US. We start work two hours before sunrise, work by headlamp for two hours, then knock off when it hits 40. Those days are brutal.
Why are you still in India, get out while you still can.
According to the almanac and weather forecast very heavy rain is coming soon good for the people and the farmers
@@blazer9547 Then where? USA? West and South America always have this temperature during summer session as well!
That's great, I'm in Montréal, lots of water from the great Lakes but all polluted, we buy distilled water for drinking, lots of solutions out there!
Do not drink distilled water! It lacks any minerals so through osmosis it will oull them out of you and can cause health issues. Make sure to drink basically any other water, I know at the Rexalls and Shoppers here they sell bug bottles of distilled but also just "spring" water, spring you can drink, distilled you cannot.
What are you even talking about? None of the lakes are polluted and that’s exactly where our water comes from
Most other Montrealers I know drink tap water just fine…
Also…DO NOT drink distilled water, it’s not good for you. Purified water is ok but NOT distilled
Collect water 💧 in cisterns like Sicily.
It's too wet and too dry in europe . Tough crowd to please
Sooo... Why can't they use ocean water for 'greywater' uses as well? It wouldn't need treating. Also, with desalinated water, you can add in a percentage of treated ocean water that hasn't been desalinated to top it up which reduces the cost of desalinated water. After all a small amount of salt in the water is acceptable.
If things get real bad, just go high salt in the water and declare it not fit to drink and bottle up the desalinated water for drinking. Costly yes but it would make the most use of the water available without having to re-plumb the entire region.
Guess you've not been to the ocean before? If sea water is left to sit, it smells and promotes bacteria.
@@Masterrunescapeeri love when people provide solutions to problems they know nothing about 😂😂
@@Masterrunescapeer No different than any other non treated water... add a bit of chlorine and its a non issue.
Is it not true that a lot more people die of cold rather than heat, certainly true in the UK anyway
Because of homeless?
It will be no use unless smart people who can judge the whole situation guide the world more.
Many people misunderstand the proportion of renewable energy unless they consider it separately for daytime and nighttime, when solar power is generated.
Furthermore, since solar power and wind power are unstable, global warming will not be alleviated unless attention is paid to the fact that large thermal power plants are the main focus of power generation plans.
I am commenting from Japan, where it rains a lot. Last year, there was no big change in the amount of rainfall over the country, but the route of rain clouds changed, so the amount of water stored in many dams decreased.
From now on, I think we need to reduce power consumption at night.
Please refer to my icon regarding summer energy saving.
Here in Ohio it's way too cold and rainy for my taste. 🥶
Rain, sleet, hail, snow, ice, thunderstorms, drizzle, tornados since November 2023 all way through April 2024 by now 🤮
Water crisis, overheat temperature.
These topics trends on my feeds.
S.O.S Spain..no water, no more tourism
don’t think so, probably no more agriculture but tourists will keep coming
They are opening the dams so there is water scarcity.
So I guess I won't be able to buy my favorite bottled water for much longer (Vichy Catalan) :D
🤔 basically the temperature is the problem not the rainfall. . . .
Bring down the temperature ☑️👍
There is no ocean in Cataluña, you mentioned it a few times.
Bla bla bla.... when you consume more of a resource than it's availability then you blame clima. Intensive agriculture and too much tourism must be a better culprit.
Just curious, why is desalination expensive when we can bring people to the moon? Is it just a matter of priority?
Desalination is energy intensive, and energy is expensive. And the salt dumped back in the sea causes local ecological damage - it may be that, in future, the salt can be used in sodium-ion batteries so there can be a practical by-product from desalination that actually helps the environment.
Sure, Overpopulation can’t be an issue , increasing tenfold population can’t have an impact on the environment
Check your seals, breathe in through your mouth, breathe out through your nose, and walk without rhythm.
This is because the bad local polítics. The last twenty years in Catalonia nothing has been done to manage and improve the wáter disposal... They were even opposed to Central Goberment against the inter regions and rivers planning for water disposal. So, if you don't do nothing but just oppose and disagree you got It, the disaster of your ineptitude is here. The rest of Spain is well managed, even the south regions have better disposal and reserves for dry periods. In Spain just Catalonia have problema, none of other region has It.
Goodbye water power.
One big thing i miss here again is the mention of animal agriculture.
They use massive amounts of water.
So if you don't want climate change stop or lower the consumption of animal products (next to the obvious cruelty that is prevented that way).
I thought Bellingham was Catalonia's problem. Oh well...
The sea is not necessarily an ocean.
Ask some water from Scandinavian countries where flooding happens.
recycled bath water...not just for the toilet is my guess ....nice
The water from the shower is used to refill the toilets.
I already do that. My bathwater is poured into buckets (I cover them up with plastic foil), then I flush the tolet with them. The downside is a huge loss of time, which many people don't have nowadays.
Upside is you really can feel it on the bill.
Sorry, what 'ocean'?
Right 😂😂😂😂😂 the Mediterranean Ocean 🌊
It is honestly SO unbearable anymore that every and any video starts with you saying THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE DYING these days. Do you have to, can you not??? The video title is "Why more rain is not easing Catalonia's water shortages", so sounds like a neutral video, so can you just keep it neutral, unless you report about war zones or the actual theme is about the number of victims?!
its wetter but its not consistant and its not everywhere.
most places are getting way less water now due to climate change.
blaming tourism when its actually the earths climate chsnging due to our activity doesnt make much sense.
Heat means increased evaporation thus more rain. Only some places are drier not most.
how not to blame tourism? It's been reported that tourists consumes more than 70% more water than locals. A city like Barcelona have every year 10 million tourists, which is about 7 times the population of the city. Tourism is a big factor. Not the only one, but a big one.
I wasn't aware that tourism wasn't part of, 'our activity'.
@@BlueFrenzy its a big one thats been there for years and now its a problem?
eithet the business model wasnt sustainable from the start, climate change occured or both.
the bigger issue is climate change because that destablizes everything.
less rain, less consitant rain and then floods.
flooding after a drought doesnt fix anything.
most of the water does not get absorbed into ground tables and instead runs off into streams, lakes and the ocean.
thats the problem.
not consistant rainfaill and that is due to climate change primarily
The earth is becoming Arrakis
Should all pools be salt water
and the pool machinery will stop working in 3, 2, 1...
wotah
Meanwhile, 80% of the water goes to tourists, who waste it! We're pretty much doomed, due to greed of EVERYBODY!
That's what we have been seeing: Industry (mostly intensive agriculture/farming) and tourism have been destroying Spain for decades.... Our politicians continue to get paid off, while the rest of us watch the land slowly die.
Yeah, free catalonia! 😂😂😂
@@daniellatanswell3990 Dude, tourism has literally developed Spain for decades. You live in upside-down land.
It's better banning tourism industry rather than banning the ice
😂😂
Too many hotels , too many tourists.
It's not a lack of rain fall, it's increasing urbanisation and a massive demand on the water infrastructure during summer due to tourism.
also from some farming, major industrial purposes, and the crooked companies selling and controlling our water supplies.
Agriculture is by far the largest chunk in the US West. I suspect the same is true everywhere. Urbanization is one part but expanded agriculture is the larger partner.
Meat eating is a far bigger issue than tourism
Spain has the highest consumption of meat in Europe ( or second or third depends on the statistics)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 dedicated to producing just the feed for livestock and then some more water and space for the actual livestock.
If it still doesn't look outrageous to you, what if I tell you that all of these are just for around 9%-10% of Spain's calorie intake? All of this devastation and water consumption enough for 20 years gone for Spaniards to keep 70 million animals alive every year just so they can eat 10% of their calories from meat. And people blame it on tourism.
@@catalina5382 no it's not, flying Avocados from California to Europe for vegetarians causes more climate change than farming local produce.
There's a lack of rain fall. We have been 36 months straight raining below average, and the quantity of rain is decreasing on average 1.9% per decade since more than 70 years ago. This, of course doesn't take in account the faster evaporation which has increased by 2.4ºC since preindustrial levels, and it's growing exponentially.
To be precise with numbers, in 2018, in Barcelonès rained 1.010 liters per m2. 626 on 2019, 855 on 2020, 329 on 2021, 331 on 2022, and there's not yet the information on 2023, but it was the dryest year ever. Official data from Gencat (institute of statistics of Catalonia). There's lack of rainfall. A lot.
RIP Barcelona!
lol spain is literally surrounded by water, just deal with it, it's not rocket science.
Desalination?
just go to space and step outside the craft without a suit....nice and cold i promise.
ignore other silly issues like lack of oxygen, suffering or imminent death.
Does it mean using urine to flush the toilet?
Meat eating is a big factor in this
Spain has the highest consumption of meat in Europe ( or second or third depends on the statistics)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 dedicated to producing just the feed for livestock and then some more water and space for the actual livestock.
If it still doesn't look outrageous to you, all of these are just for around 9%-10% of Spain's calorie intake. All of this devastation and water consumption just for barely 10% of calories.
Its not meat eating but agriculture for export.
@@merzto no, these are facts specifically for livestock. It is the meat and cheese industry that is soaking up a lot of water, it doesn't matter if it's export or not. This is where the water goes.
Its cycles older than human nations. Earth time, Earth cycles. Our time is a projection.
- 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 1000 years to the past of the universe.
Today April 22, 2024 the state of our universe is the same as it was 5 million and 96 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 years 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.
Don't worry about it our government will send y'all billions for no reason that's what America due. We send money to any country that needs it or doesn't need it.
Seed the clouds!
Its sad humans are here.
But they have Money, no brains lots of nice money
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