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Reservoirs Remain at 50% Awaiting Rainfall to Increase Levels

Reservoirs Remain at 50% Awaiting Rainfall to Increase Levels

Reservoirs have not yet accounted for the heavy rainfall affecting the southeastern peninsula, where water reserves remain critically low.

J. A. G.

Martes, 29 de octubre 2024, 13:35

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Roads closed, traffic jams, flooded streets, homes and shops, classes suspended, red alerts for torrential rains... the downpours and hail have severely impacted the southeastern peninsula, complicating the lives of its citizens. However, the DANA has so far had little effect on the water volume stored in its reservoirs, nor on the national water reserve, which remains unchanged from a week ago.

The data provided this Tuesday by the Ministry for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge (Miteco) do not yet reflect the heavy rainfall recorded since Sunday in the Mediterranean basin, especially in eastern Andalusia, the Region of Murcia, the Valencian Community, and the Balearic Islands.

This is why the water reserve currently holds 28,030 cubic hectometers (hm3), just five hm3 less than a week ago. The percentage has not changed and remains at 50% of its capacity, awaiting a likely increase in level next week.

Compared to last year, when the reservoirs held 21,251 hm3 (37.9%), the reserve has 12 more points. Compared to the average of the last decade (25,362 hm3), it represents 5 more points.

According to the Ministry, the rainfall has significantly affected the entire peninsula with a maximum of 111.4 liters per square meter in Castellón. However, the Miteco report does not yet include the rainfall from the last 24 hours, which, combined with the rains expected to continue sweeping the peninsula at least until Thursday, will raise the water level stored in much of the country.

Nonetheless, some of the most needed basins have slightly advanced compared to last week. Thus, the Júcar basin has gained eight cubic hectometers; the Guadiana four, the interior of Catalonia three, and the Segura two. The Guadalquivir Basin remains the same, while the Andalusian Mediterranean and the Guadalete-Barbate slightly decrease.

By Hydrographic Basins

In general, the reserve by areas is as follows: the Eastern Cantabrian is at 90.4%; the Western Cantabrian at 74.9%; the Miño-Sil at 65.9%; Galicia Coast at 74.8%; the internal Basque Country Basins at 95%; the Duero at 64.3%; the Tagus at 55%; the Tinto, Odiel, and Piedras at 70.3%; and the Ebro at 69.1%.

Below 50% are the Júcar, which is at 40.3%, the Guadiana at 40.2%; the Guadalquivir at 32.2%; the internal Catalonia Basins at 28.3%; the Andalusian Mediterranean Basin at 21.6%; Guadalete-Barbate at 21.1%; and finally the Segura at 14.7%. The Segura reservoirs, which had been losing water for months, have advanced 0.2 percentage points in the last week, awaiting next Tuesday's data.

By provinces, and according to the specialized portal Embalses.net, the reservoirs with the worst levels are those of Almería (at 6.7% of its capacity, but without accounting for the rains of the last hours); Albacete (11.2%), Castellón (13.5%), Málaga (15.4%), Murcia (17.5%) and Alicante (19.6%).

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