#Spain drought

[mapsontheweb]

Copernicus satellites continue to acquire worrisome snapshots of the impacts of the severe drought ongoing in Spain.

Extremadura has lost its typical green color, as evidenced when comparing Sentinel 2 images from May  2022 and 2023.

by @defis_eu

[trendynewsnow]

Severe Flash Floods Cause Disruption in Eastern and Southern Spain

Severe Flash Floods Hit Eastern and Southern Spain Spanish authorities are currently grappling with the aftermath of devastating flash floods that have left several individuals reported missing. The torrential rains swept through village streets, displacing vehicles and causing significant disruption to rail services across large areas of eastern and southern Spain on Tuesday. In a particularly…

[beautiful-basque-country]

It's always nice to see big corporations and wealthy people blaming us regular, poorer people, of the current drought. You use too much water in your toilet, you use too much water in your shower, you eat too much red meat which is an industry that uses tons of litres of water!

Meanwhile: the government is not taking a single effective measure against climate change, electric companies emptying reservoirs a few months ago, golf courses lush green, all swimming pools in hotels and villas full to the top, big agriculture companies cultivating avocados (each piece needs around 600L of water), etc etc etc

[aroaceofthesea]

Ok so today was kinda crazy over here (in barcelona) so here's a bit of an explanation of what happened bc i have nothing better to do: (apparently its been in the news in quite a few places outside spain too but like most of the articles were wildly in favor of spain on this so this is like. what it looks like from the other side. some context and then what happened and some personal commentary lol)

Ok so Catalunya is a part of Spain that for a long time has been oppressed so a considerable amount of people want independence. In fact it has always been a very important factor when voting etc for some people even more than right wing or left wing (we used to have nothing like your republican party here now there is but thats not the point)

Ok so today's drama actually started on 2017 the 1st of october. The democratically elected catalan government for once kept their promises and organized a referendum to see if the majority wanted independece or not, even though the spanish government declared it illegal

Anyways a lot of shit went down, a lot of police brutality and an overwhelming 97% yes (though thats mostly bc the people against independence were generally against the referendum and didn't vote but that's on them) then the government declared independence like a week or so later (then they took it back after 8 seconds💀)

Okay so then like 1 hour after that the spanish government applied an article from the constitution (which has been around since the dictator which most people in power were supporters of died) that allowed them to override the democratically elected government and put whoever they chose in power which you know. very democratic thing to do (the party the spanish president was from had literally 8 of 135 representatives in catalunya just so you get an idea)

Anyways eventually they judged the representatives in the democratic government and it was clear they were going to get a lot of jail time. Some of them stayed here and got up to 9 years of jail i think it was? but some of them didn't want to risk this and also recognition from other countries mattered a lot to us at the moment so they went to different european countries each. Spanish judges of course sent euroorders which basically is they judge them in that country and decide if they should send them back

Off the top of my head, they've been in belgium, the uk, switzerland, denmark, finland, austria and germany and they were found not guilty in each. of. them. however meanwhile the ones who stayed got so many years of jail..... sus huh

Anyways that was many years ago during this time the president at the time traveled around those countries, became a MEP (he was in the eu parliament) and got immunity then gave that up to be in the catalan parliament this spring

And like, all these years the big campaign for his political party was like okok i promise this time im not lying uwu hes really gonna come back this time and it was always a lie but like this time apparently it wasnt :)

So today was the day they were supposed to vote for the new president, and he was supposed to vote bc he was elected etc anyways they were like not clickbait!! he's really coming this time!! Go protest in front of the parliament for when they detain him!!

And ok so the protest was supposed to start at 8am but until like 9am nothing happened then they were like everyone welcome the president!! And the motherfucker appeared in front of everyone (this man was supposed to be arrested like. the minute he set foot in spain) and gave a speech like oh im back they will probably detain me today but dont let that stop you blahblahblah anyways eventually they were like ok make a path and let's all bring the president to the parliament together!! (this guy will always be president in our hearts)

So anyways we created this path they came etc we all knew they werent going to detain him then but we were all kinda hoping they would bc it was better than them detaining him later and all the members of his party went through there all the cameras etc except. it was just a decoy

So no one knew this except probably the members of his party and the 3 or 4 ppl that helped him escape but the man just. disappeared like legit no one knows where he is yet

And like at first it was weird like i havent seen him but i must have missed him and thats it right? except it was this for everyone but still it seemed like a conspiracy theory yet when we talked about him maybe having left anyways the police didnt even know something was wrong until the session started and the guy just. wasn't there. after giving a speech in front of everyone in front of the parliament

Anyways who knows what happened and in what order but we kept protesting they arrested a policeman who had helped the president escape with his car, they even activated the fucking terrorist protocol and started what's apparently called operation cage where they just. Check every single car (including the trunk bc they are traumatized by a joke that last time he left it was on the trunk of a car) coming in or out of the city and in or out of the country. Read that again. The terrorist protocol for a politician from 7 years ago on an 8 of august around 11 am causing massive retentions fucking everywhere at infinite degrees celsius (idk who looks more like a terrorist in here man)

And like. What they wanna judge him for isn't even legal now? Like a couple years ago they approved a law that idk exactly what it said but basically if they hadn't kept the money for themselves it wasnt a crime (and yes it was retroactive) but the judges decided that since their capital hadn't decreased bc of it then it had obviously increased (it didnt it just. stayed the fucking same) so yeah they could still obviously go after him

Anyways i hope he makes it out of the country and gets the fucking pleasure to mock the entire country laugh at their faces as he somehow makes it out once again

Puta espanya i visca catalunya thanks for reading lol

[michaelpaul7]

[bumblebeeappletree]

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[veatomis]

WHY IS EVERY SINGLW FUCKING INFLUENCER COMING TO SPAIN. LEEEEEAAAVEEEEE

[lost-in-fandoms]

i fully forgot what i was doing before the video dropped head empty just screaming

[underthewingsofthblackeagle]

In parts of Spain, the water level in reservoirs is already dangerously low for this time of year. Farmers fearing for their crops and livestock hope politicians will act quickly. But they've been told the necessary funds aren't available.

[mapsontheweb]

In Spain, a drought turns the world’s largest olive oil producing region brown.

NASA’s Terra satellite shows where green vegetation in May 2022 (top) turned brown by May 2023 (bottom). The drought dried up reservoirs, parched olive groves, and led to water restrictions.

by @NASAEarth

[head-post]

Spanish minister welcomes €1.4 billion deal to help protect Doñana wetlands from drought

Minister of Environmental Transition Teresa Ribera stated that the plan is aimed at encouraging farmers to cease growing crops that rely heavily on water.

Spanish authorities signed an agreement on Monday to invest 1.4 billion euros in areas around Doñana National Park to prevent the area from drying up.

This is an agreement with which we put an end to pressure on a natural treasure the likes of which there are few in the world.

Juan Moreno, president of the Andalusia region, announced that farmers would receive financial incentives to stop cultivating land and reforest 14 towns close to Doñana in southern Spain. He added that farmers wishing to continue growing crops would receive less money but should switch to organic dry-crop farming.

Read more HERE

[hellofromuranus]

MADRID, Aug 10 (Reuters) - The largest permanent lagoon in southern Spain's Donana national park has completely dried out for the second summer in a row due to a prolonged drought and the overexploitation of aquifers, the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) said on Thursday.

The drying out of the lagoon comes as Spain grapples with the third heatwave of the summer, while emptying reservoirs have forced water restrictions in parts of the country.

"Since we began collecting data on the area half a century ago, this has never happened in two consecutive years, which shows the seriousness of the situation facing the Donana lagoon system and, with it, all the biodiversity that depends on it," the CSIC said in a statement.