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Heavy rains lash Spain after deadly floods
1 month, 1 week ago

Heavy rains lash Spain after deadly floods

Al Jazeera  

Spain has closed schools and evacuated residents as heavy rains lashed the country, two weeks after its worst floods in a generation that killed more than 200 people. National weather office AEMET placed the southern province of Malaga and the northeastern Catalonia region on red alert on Wednesday, the highest level for strong rains expected to last until Friday. Less …

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Spain: Tourists in Catalonia face water restrictions as drought crisis deepens
8 months, 1 week ago

Spain: Tourists in Catalonia face water restrictions as drought crisis deepens

Hindustan Times  

Spain’s drought-stricken northeastern Catalonia is considering imposing water restrictions on tourists in the driest parts of the region if domestic consumption is not curtailed, the Catalan government said Tuesday. Spain: Tourists in Catalonia face water restrictions as drought crisis deepens The restriction of 100 liters per tourist per day for hotels would go into effect if a municipality fails to …

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Drought-stricken villages in Spain’s northeast struggle to keep drinking water flowing
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Drought-stricken villages in Spain’s northeast struggle to keep drinking water flowing

Associated Press  

GUALBA, Spain — Plastic jugs in hand, Joan Torrent takes a path into the woods in search of drinking water. Gualba’s name, according to local lore, means “white water” — for the streams flowing down from the Montseny Mountain overlooking the village. “Some municipalities lose 70-80% of their water through leaks,” Catalan government official Laura Vilagrà told Spanish national radio …

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Spain’s Catalonia region declares a drought emergency in 24 towns that will see water cuts
1 year, 4 months ago

Spain’s Catalonia region declares a drought emergency in 24 towns that will see water cuts

Associated Press  

MADRID — Northeastern Spain’s Catalonia region declared a drought emergency in 24 municipalities Wednesday following a severe lack of rain in recent years. Restrictions put in place as part of the emergency will principally affect agricultural and industrial water usage but not drinking water, Catalonia Water Agency Director Samuel Reyes said at a news conference. The Catalonia Water Agency said …

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With record heat and drought-stricken woods, Spain’s Catalonia faces perfect wildfire conditions
1 year, 5 months ago

With record heat and drought-stricken woods, Spain’s Catalonia faces perfect wildfire conditions

Associated Press  

SOLSONA, Spain — Surveying the hills covered with near bone-dry pines stretching to the Pyrenees in the distance, Asier Larrañaga has reason to be on guard. The fires coincide with Catalonia and a large part of Spain’s south bearing the brunt of a drought that started last year and has only recently been somewhat alleviated by rain. Catalonia’s firefighters were …

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Aranese: Spain's little-known language
2 years, 11 months ago

Aranese: Spain's little-known language

BBC  

Aranese: Spain's little-known language Richard Collett Geographically, Spain's Val d'Aran should be part of France, but it's neither French, Spanish nor Catalan in culture, history or even language. "We are Aranese because we speak Aranese," said Jusèp Loís Sans Socasau passionately, when I stepped into his office in Vielha, Val d'Aran's capital. In Val d'Aran, the Occitan language survived as …

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