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Barcelona Spain In Drought: To Import Water By Ship

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Barcelona is planning to import water by ship from Marseilles, in southern France, as well as from other nearby coastal sources of fresh water. It is an emergency measure: area reservoirs are only 20% full as a consequence of an historic drought.

The Catalan Water Agency says it has chartered 10 tankers to transport water to Barcelona for at least six months, or until rainfall returns to normal. This is expected to cost €22m (£17m, $35m) a month. Emergency wells are being dug in the region of Tarragona to supply the tanker ships.

The politics of coping with the water shortage in Barcelona remind us of the parallel situation in Atlanta Georgia, U… Keep Reading

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  1. Barcelona fresh water can be solved by windesal..

    There has been much talk about climate change, but not much about where we will see its first impact.

    Flooding ,Drought, water is the vector of climate change, we already have seen in recent times in many areas Worldwide areas where there is intense competition for water, Windesal® can sustain many areas Worldwide that will be impacted by this issue, that may suffer physically or economically from this lack of fresh water shortage.

    Windesal® can deal efficiently in way to lead the greatest single issue of the 21st Century: Sustainability.

    1. Barrie Harrop on May 17th, 2008 at 3:55 am

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