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Abundant rains cause overflows in the major rivers of Spain.
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Heavy rains in March 2013 and the high rains in the first decade of April in Spain, have continued to increase the water level in the river beds and the danger of flooding, which has caused the overflow of the country’s major rivers such as the: Ebro, Duero, Guad...

Wastewater purification and its use in Spain. - Under the conditions of Spain's autonomous communities there are a group that purify 100% of its wastewater, another group cleans more than 85% of its wastewater and a third group of communities that purify their wastewater from 52 to 80%. The treated wastewater is used primar...

The Spanish agricultural sector requires a more streamlined water policy. - The Spanish state has increased water control, however needs to develop a water policy to expedite the construction of dams and water transfers and improve the exploitation of water resources, irrigation and drainage and to increase research in: matter water, treatment and use...

Torrential rains and inadequate drainage systems induce huge losses southeast Spain. - The first storm of autumn 2012 that affected southeastern Spain in late September, torrential rains brought about 200 l/m2, which has killed 11 people and 2 missing. Total losses are estimated at over 250 million euros. Cold drop has damaged 12,500 homes, hundreds of cars and ...

Spain needs to strengthen the economic situation of the agricultural sector. - The demographic growth of the world population, the rapid economic development of China and India caused considerable demand for water, fuel, energy, food and the increasing food demand of the Spanish population, make it advisable to improve agricultural policy in Spain and be...

The Spanish agricultural sector needs to improve profitability and water management. - During the past 12 years of this century in the period 2000 to 2012, prices paid to producers of agricultural products have changed little in Spain, but the cost of fertilizers, pesticides, oil, electricity, different inputs and investment in machinery, implements, agricultura...

The oldest dam in Europe is in Alicante. - The Alicants can boast of many things unusual and unique, including our climate and character of our people, but there is a hidden heritage for many of us who rarely have a chance to meet him. Today we show you one of those points that have been fortunate to have impr...

Electricity price in Spain threatens the profitability of irrigation. - The increase in the price of electricity by more than 50% significantly affect agricultural production costs, profitability and threatens to gradual deterioration of the irrigated areas, increasing the water cost, since much of the irrigation techniques in...

Service fees applied to urban water consumption, greatly raising the water cost. - The average value of a m3 of water consumed in urban conditions in the province of Alicante in the Valencia Community has gradually increased and now reaches a value of 2.33 euros per m3, which is considered high, the most important component of that cost of the service fee w...

The Guadalquivir river needs channel correction and drainage works against floods - During different months of 2010, heavy rains have affected the Guadalquivir river basin in the Community of Andalucia at Spain and have provoked affectation of major agricultural and urban areas as a result of excessive water. Many flooded agricultural and urban areas have bee...

Spanish agriculture requires greater economic profitability - Spanish agriculture has problems in agricultural productivity and profitability, provoked by different causes, the fundamental: the progressive aging of farmers, the size of farm units, low prices received by farmers for agricultural produce, the low wages paid to agricultural...

Climate change, current and short-term effect. -

Climate change is part of the changes or adjustments that makes the planet earth to maintain the balance of different factors or natural forces, at...

The exploitation of excessive rains in Spain requires more hydraulic development. - The year 2010 in Spain, considered to be wet so far, shows that the use we make of the excessive water is insufficient and need to build more drainage systems, more water projects which increase the regulation of runoff, further transfers carrying water from water abundant are...

The water problem in Spain needs greater unity of action. - The water problem in Spain needs a more coordinated drive on water resources and their exploitation, with increased state control over water, which should reduce the demands of autonomy on water resources, because this causes regions constant conflict over water, a water war b...

Haiti needs to increase the irrigation and drainage infrastructure to mitigate the food crisis - Haiti is badly damaged and now needs to be reconstructed, over two months of the earthquake more than one million people need humanitarian aid to survive, so it is strategic and necessary to prioritize infrastructure needs for irrigation, drainage and sources of supply as an e...

Major flooding in urban areas of Spain, warning about the deficiencies in the drainage systems - Major flooding in many cities in the Andalucia Community and the island of Tenerife belongs to the Canary Islands and with less intensity in Valencia, the Balearic Islands, Aragon and in the Communities of the north, has caused the entry into Spain of different cold fronts and...

Water in Spain requires more state control. - The water problem in Spain requires to achieve greater state control of all surface and ground water resources, which will expedite solutions that satisfy the technical and economic interests of the nation; to be built: new waterworks, water transfers, desalination plants, agr...

Flood control in urban areas of Spain. - The flood control in urban areas, has each time more important, since every year product of heavy rains and high cumulative values reaching timely rainfall, causing human and economic losses, so it is necessary to protect adequate our cities and towns, so that internal and ext...

For a better use of wastewater in Spain - The problem of the use of wastewater is an increasingly widespread worldwide, taking into consideration that the world population growth is already around the 6700 million people and generates billions of m3 of wastewater. This coupled with the lack of water in highly populate...

Problems with wastewater in Spain by insufficient water treatment plants - Currently the number of water treatment plants in Spain are insufficient because there are still people who dump their waste water without being treated properly, which results in a systematic deterioration of the environment around us and of which we form part.
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The water and the crisis in world food production - Currently the world's population is estimated at 6700millones inhabitants of whom about 15%, have problems of hunger, so it is necessary to increase food production and reduce production costs, the water through irrigation tends to duplicate and triple food production, so it i...

Major flooding by insufficient drainage infrastructure - It is necessary to take measures in time to fight a strategic and effective control against floods and economic damage, material and human resources that cause the excessive waters, we should not wait until there are high losses as a result of the flooding for to develop a str...

Problem of water exploitation in Spain. - To solve the problem of water in Spain is needed primarily a water policy that will work simultaneously and prioritized at: hydraulic construction, operation and maintenance of water sources and networks driving, investigations on water and irrigation, water sup...

Large losses of rainwater in Spain. - In a country where the regime of rainfall is so variable and the average annual precipitation is considered moderate such as Spain , highlights the importance of establishing the mechanisms needed to achieve a greater grade of rainwater harvesting. In February 2008, Spain suff...

Within the problem of water in Spain. - The problem of water in Spain is not only build reservoirs, transfers and desalination, but also make efficient management of available water resources. The annual natural water resources of Spain are made up of the amount of surface and underground water resour...

For a better water exploitation in the Ebro basin. - The system of distribution of rainfall in the Ebro basin is highly variable and provoke that exist within the watershed, areas with rainfall deficits and others with abundant rainfall, making it necessary to build more reservoirs, transfers and hydraulic works in different reg...

Fight against the drought. - The average volume of water reserves in the reservoirs at Spain in the last 5 years is below the historical average, which indicates that the country is going through a period of drought, with a current balance of water reserves in the reservoirs 18-30% of reser...

The fight against the floods. - The flood control should be intensified, it is necessary to make decision-making in time to counteract the damage caused by excessive water, investment to implement these measures are more small than human and material losses caused by them, not it is necessary ...

Strengthening of water administrative infrastructures. - The situation of drought in Spain, cause that demand for water users are not able to guarantee the total, affecting water demands raised, mainly in the agricultural sector, which demand approximately 75% of water resources in operation. In an era of severe droug...

Water investments require detailed economic studies. - The investment plan in water of the Valencia region, aimed at: the construction of the Jucar Vinalopo transfer, desalination plants, improvement of hydraulic works, sewage plants, collectors, dams, modernization of irrigation and other water projects, currently exceed the 1800...

The modernization of irrigation requires demonstrative areas. - Given the importance of saving water for sustainable development of the Valencia Community, the Ministries of Agriculture and Environment of Spain joint with the Autonomy government have announced a plan of action that includes as a priority the transformation o...

Irrigation strategy against drought. - The insufficient rainfall in Spain in the year 2006, which caused difficulties in ensuring a optimal irrigation regime of crops in the major irrigation areas of the country, more so if one takes into consideration that we are in the middle of the second year consecutive drough...

The cost of hydric investment for Alicante province - The water demand in the province of Alicante is estimated at 310 hectometre cubic annually. The Ministry of Environment ensure that expected demand in the year 2008, through the Transfer Jucar -Vinalopo, construction of desalination installations, wastewater reu...

Losses huge rainwater - In a period of 50 days from the start of the new year hydrological, October 1, 2005 until mid-November, we have moved from a stage of prolonged water shortage with little rainfall to another stage where there is an unequal distribution of the rains, with abundant rainfall in s...

Measures to a prolonged drought - Currently, the lack of water in reservoirs in the basin Segura, the insufficient number of water projects, as well as the high exploitation to which were subjected the aquifers in the province of Alicante and the Autonomous Community of Murcia, makes that the wa...

The fight against water deficit - The fight against water shortage must be strengthened .At the end of the hydrological year on 30 September 2005, resulted that the rivers had significantly reduced its flow, transfers were insufficient, the average reserve of the country's reservoirs were about ...

The water situation in Spain - The water situation in Spain in a year of severe drought, which leads to the needs of water users' demand, can not be filled in its entirety but with limitations. In a year as dry as this result so far the year 2005, shows that: reservoirs have reduced their stocks of availabl...

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