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Europe’s thirsty desert
The Spanish government strongly defends its decision to shift water from the Ebro basin to the parched southern province of Almeria – but environmentalists disagree.
From province of Almeria, the the the across view craggy sierra overlooking blue Mediterranean Spain’s southeastern on a blazing summer’s day is like that of Siberia in winter.
Every scrap of ground is covered with whitewashed plastic greenhouses that glisten like snow under the sun, producing much of northern Europe’s fruit and vegetables. Almeria is the world’s most intensive greenhouse culture, with hundreds of trucks every day taking produce directly to supermarkets in Germany, Scandinavia or Britain.
But the greenhouses – and the golf courses, hotels and housing developments along the coast – are using far more water than the underground sources can provide.
Sea-water intrusion is turning the aquifers saline, while the rivers have all completely dried up, greenhouses now covering their parched beds.
The government thinks it can solve the water problem by pumping supplies from the Ebro basin in northern Spain. The national water plan, envisaged to cost nearly 23 billion euros, will include a 1,000-kilometre pipeline and 70 dams.
Many citizens in the north and Spanish environmental groups oppose the project, which they say has been designed by and for the construction industry – a technical fix that will carry a heavy environmental as well as economic cost.
The plan also is being critically reviewed by the European Commission and Parliament, since roughly a third of the funding will come from EU taxpayers.
The government insists that the project is needed as a symbol of national unity as well as for economic and practical reasons. But, rather than unite the country, the plan has created deep divisions, since many valleys in the north will have to be flooded to hold the water. At the same time, the project has angered the region of Aragón, which depends on the Ebro. You can now drive for hours past abandoned towns in its dried-up landscape. Meanwhile, the prospect of a fresh supply of water is spurring growth in the hothouse industry. The sea of plastic is rapidly spreading eastward, where land is cheaper, to the fringes of the Cabo de Gata natural park, Europe’s driest spot. Trucks bring clean water down from the high sierra for restaurants, and most people drink bottled mineral water because what comes out of the taps is contaminated with salt and pesticides. Yet Spain -- which is dotted with dams that hold back nothing but air, and silted reservoirs -- is prodigiously wasteful of its water resources. A report by the National Statistics Institute said the country wastes five times more water than the amount that the government intends to shift under the national water plan.
Author Barry James
Reprinted from the new Courier No 3 October 2003
The Spanish government strongly defends its decision to shift water from the Ebro basin to the parched southern province of Almeria – but environmentalists disagree.
From province of Almeria, the the the across view craggy sierra overlooking blue Mediterranean Spain’s southeastern on a blazing summer’s day is like that of Siberia in winter.
Every scrap of ground is covered with whitewashed plastic greenhouses that glisten like snow under the sun, producing much of northern Europe’s fruit and vegetables. Almeria is the world’s most intensive greenhouse culture, with hundreds of trucks every day taking produce directly to supermarkets in Germany, Scandinavia or Britain.
But the greenhouses – and the golf courses, hotels and housing developments along the coast – are using far more water than the underground sources can provide.
Sea-water intrusion is turning the aquifers saline, while the rivers have all completely dried up, greenhouses now covering their parched beds.
The government thinks it can solve the water problem by pumping supplies from the Ebro basin in northern Spain. The national water plan, envisaged to cost nearly 23 billion euros, will include a 1,000-kilometre pipeline and 70 dams.
Many citizens in the north and Spanish environmental groups oppose the project, which they say has been designed by and for the construction industry – a technical fix that will carry a heavy environmental as well as economic cost.
The plan also is being critically reviewed by the European Commission and Parliament, since roughly a third of the funding will come from EU taxpayers.
The government insists that the project is needed as a symbol of national unity as well as for economic and practical reasons. But, rather than unite the country, the plan has created deep divisions, since many valleys in the north will have to be flooded to hold the water. At the same time, the project has angered the region of Aragón, which depends on the Ebro. You can now drive for hours past abandoned towns in its dried-up landscape. Meanwhile, the prospect of a fresh supply of water is spurring growth in the hothouse industry. The sea of plastic is rapidly spreading eastward, where land is cheaper, to the fringes of the Cabo de Gata natural park, Europe’s driest spot. Trucks bring clean water down from the high sierra for restaurants, and most people drink bottled mineral water because what comes out of the taps is contaminated with salt and pesticides. Yet Spain -- which is dotted with dams that hold back nothing but air, and silted reservoirs -- is prodigiously wasteful of its water resources. A report by the National Statistics Institute said the country wastes five times more water than the amount that the government intends to shift under the national water plan.
Author Barry James
Reprinted from the new Courier No 3 October 2003