NASA shows the great problem in Andalusia: "The drought has dried up the reservoirs and the olive groves"
We are in a time of DANAs, storms and floods, but the water that is falling in Spain does not hide the sad reality that our country is experiencing: the drought. This lack of water, which can become chronic in the coming years, is felt above all in the south of the Peninsula, where farmers, ranchers and citizens suffer from a lack of water.
The change has been so drastic this year that NASA has published some images that perfectly illustrate the problem.. In them, it can be seen how what was green in 2022, this year is brown.
“In Spain, a drought stains the world's largest olive oil-producing region brown,” reads the text with which the space agency accompanies the images.. A message that perfectly describes the drama that oil producers, among other farmers, are suffering.
“The drought dried up the reservoirs, dried up the olive groves and caused water restrictions,” they explain from NASA. And they are not without reason since the reservoirs of Andalusia are currently, and despite the rains, at 27.39% of their total capacity.
Eduardo Martín, general secretary of Asaja Sevilla, has greeted the arrival of the rains, which were “very necessary and are more than welcome since a long cycle of more than 150 days without rain in general has been broken” and, in addition, He has highlighted that there are prospects of rain for ten or twelve more days.
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He explained that they have been very beneficial for the grove and for some crops such as cotton, sunflower and some vegetables, despite the fact that in some provinces the hail has caused significant damage, such as in the Sevillian towns of Los Palacios and Lebrija, and also in Trebujena (Cádiz) and in towns in Malaga.
He lamented that the rains have been “short in quality and quantity because they have not contributed to increasing the dammed water”, which is one of the “big problems” of the agricultural sector, and he added that it would have to rain a lot more for it to enter water in the reservoirs.