us with china as leaders, agent thing in california. those leaders said they want to improve relations despite lingering tensions over issues, including i want up to extra gather documentary for you focusing on water shortages in spain. and this drastic measures needed to say supplies. i'm terry martin from an office here at dw, thanks for watching the fast fashion as an environmental 9 a clothing graveyard image of land desert. this is where things wealthy industrial nations no longer need and lightest textile waste gets stranded. fashion, watch now on youtube, the

spanish vacations mean sizzling heating and cooling water pools by the beach and in this city center. it's nice to relax by the pool in the afternoon, so that was fun. cause tourism consumes vast amounts of water while locals live with water rationing to discuss political risk to use on average 3 to 5 times more water than barcelona residents. agriculture also requires huge amounts of water. wells continuously pump round one or more with killing the planet, destroying everything in the photo springs, tourism in agricultural sectors are growing, but some regions have not seen rain in 6 months. the longest drought in decades. some of the goons have already dried up the so you think it is the see if

this was done as what type of this has become a desert of law, we can deny it. we can look away. but it's obvious cation now. it's and maybe that's in the bar. so now with 27000000 annual visitors, no other city in spain attracts more tourists on our tour of the city, we noticed that the fountains so typical of barcelona are dry one side of the dramatic water shortage. the regional government shut them off in march with the

temperature as well about 30 degrees celsius. people really missed the cooling fountain. there's nothing sadder than a fountain without water. okay. so you don't like it like that. no water running water. a sad sight, but a necessary measure. and tours should help save water too. at the your bundle tow nor am i got a free i live either is campaigning for shorter showers. well, here we slain. how about the challenge for me to shower? and this is a simple sandwich. why for minutes? because the world health organization says that the media of a shower is 10 minutes. and we waste 200 liters. and then these, like these days of the salad until 4 minutes, it's only to waste 80 meters per house. this is the extra and some of them said i'm

able to to make out my shower 2 minutes. so so it's great now this year when it comes to saving water, every effort counts we meet harry sure, and from comfort. drinking his morning coffee on the hotels roof deck. she sees the form in the shower as a good challenge. to show my get myself west under the shower and then turn off the water life. and so myself once or twice a month, but use less than full minutes of water in totals. i'm to just know if you mean by so it's been stuff you liked for and 6 me and i'm in the shower for 56 minutes. but i only run the water for about 2 years. so i've already won this challenge as it is and challenge step into, i just want to give you enough conserving water in the shower. yes. but giving up

the rooftop pool. not so much more to own the poor shore if there is no other way. but that definitely reduces the attractiveness because all the object assess the effective you tape without a pull. it looks very don't is it is 0 dollars. barson loan is beach. prominent is about a half hour away. it's mostly locals who come here this summer. they have to do without the beach showers. they've been shut off. a window of the beach is great, but the shower should be working so we can enjoy it even more the people that lo, maximum, the capital m authorities ordered the shut down. yeah, i have someone else in mind that they haven't worked for a few weeks, which is a bit annoying. go simple going going well. yeah. the regulations on this beach are

strict. no water, not even for a quick footprint. we're setting that up. why do you need the beach? it's really impressive. i'm covered in sans and can't get yourself and i have to go home like that. where you most tourist. see none of this. they tend to stick to the center looking for a big city experience. so it's the locals, not the tourist, who have to do with our we meet guntee mosque, you augusta last. he grew up in barcelona and finds the situation unfair. so these tests consume altura is to use on average $3.00 to $5.00 times more water than barcelona resident i. you can just convince the people here are unhappy because nothing ever changed. and that's like i'm, you know, it's in those, these take it and it was, we have to cut back on water at home. you know, they take it out of it and they were even talking about rationing water in

september and the magazine. but they never confront the real problem. i know that in summer the population doubles or triples with tourism and water consumption, explode, consumer accessible dante shows, us airborne, an old town neighborhood, charming streets and no big hotels. but even here, there are now more tourists then logos, the doorbell, spear numbers, not names. the districts residents had been replaced by air b and b tourist who pay higher rent. exactly how many vacation is come is hard to say because many of the apartments are not officially registered, but there are more every year and the water is even scarcer the most. and i'm what i thought. yeah, you're not going to. and then we're asking for a moratorium on to risk numbers. we can have cruise ships continuing to come with those plans and a new airport runaway being built when there's not enough water del it has to be

regulated to setup the site where that is. so during our tour we find graffiti protesting over tourism. it seems dante is not alone and his wishes for locals. daily water consumption has been restricted since march and summer is far from over. the we are now on the way to the cell reservoir. in catalonia, this reservoir provides drinking water for the entire region, including barcelona. the regions, water scare city is clearly visible here. this church was submerged when the dam was built in the 19 sixty's. now, with the lack of rain, it is re emerged. home, the motor aim and front desk, call them call. it have come to see it. they played here at children before the dam was built. their childhood church has suddenly real here.

the window open tunnel is that you must be when the reservoir is more than half. you can stand here, the water reaches higher than the tower status of it. so, so let's say that you can only see the pyramid on top of the tower. nothing more. so in other, most just most of the old film footage shows how the reservoir is supposed to look the an incredible reunion. but one that also worries them when this thing says here, the problem i'm, we're on the book. yeah. the most of the repeat the way to the feeling that you like to make it a little. i see a huge problem going from boss a loaner in the entire region, depend on the drinking water from this risk of walk is this. if we go for another 5 or 6 months without rain, barcelona, and many other places

a going to have the big problem. i get in there. i'm going to live with the south church and it's 23 meter tower ever disappeared below the water surface again in the beak, dusta has come to the lake to talk with us. he operated a boat rental company until last year to appear where his boat stopped. was right here. a pastry sir, so i'm sad to say so 3 sir. i'm in the service. i see what the already done, the almost but then it i, my gosh, there should be deck chairs here and the umbrellas. federal people swimming loud dogs running on the shore and, and the boat sailing. i want someone should be coming back from water escape. i know that at this time the people should be sun bathing them. i know totally and understand it sat in the long run and the life that was here is gone. love you that automatic guy in his table got more stuff. enrique rented out

a wide variety of boats and the business ran successfully for 24 years. but because the reservoir was just 6 percent full this spring, the authorities informed him that voting was too dangerous. his business was not allowed to operate after the so frustrating and you really feel powerless and then they getting on the dns. if it's a name for them to instead of the authorities just tell you to do something else on this, you know, just like that without feeling c. c 3. i mean, those are still like they don't care about us, not the is going to see nothing unless you see it on the leaving the lake, we see the current water level marked on the wall of the down. the reservoir is more than 20 meters below capacity. the

your that the model also depends on the cell reservoir. the town has just 39000 inhabitants, but a 1000000 tourists joined them every year, placing an enormous strain on the water supply. the parties circuit doors frequent the hotel, somebody like glen and johan from amsterdam. it's 2 in the afternoon and they were among the 1st here recovering from last night's party. the weather is nice. it's a nice hotel. girls are good and just main is a beautiful country. to be honest, though joe has 434 rooms, but the real highlight is in the basement load a pet is the hotels environmental manager explains that this machine collects the tours shower water. you pass on the screen,

the water goes through this filter where it's clean douglas part of the glass, the pro mean, and then runs into a central tank where we treat it with fluoride. well, for sale, what the load on most a lot. welcome florida is so yeah, well then the clean water is come through these pipes back up into the apartments and read the fluids. the system was a novelty when it went into operation in 1998. they're still proud of it today. of the game is for most of we still constant p produce more time. so if we don't use a cassidy and treated, we will eventually run out which c. now what's the name of the noise in the model? of the over 15 years, the hotel is saved. 215000000 leaders of fresh water by flushing the toilets with treaty. that is as much as 1000 families use any year was

do water savings cannot interfere with vacation fun? the pools water level has been lowered by 20 centimeters, but no one here wants to empty the pool completely. are you not to feel crazy that up? of course you can send people to the beach joining that to see that. but we don't have to close the pool because the water stays in a cold. yeah. it's filtered and coordinate to track it and then, but not refill an applicant of almost a month. and even though that calculation fails to include the many hundreds of leaders of water that evaporate from the pool every day, we will see this again and again on our trip at the your, at the most city hall, we want to know whether voluntary water saving is enough or if official restrictions are needed, but the person in charge has no time for us today. the . the next morning he agrees to talk with us via zoom kindly as he tells us that in

the spring the cattle and regional government bands are filling a vacation home pools. yeah, yeah, we just stayed empty a nerves with freight on it. it was so extreme that people tried to feel that pools would see water or to bring water with tank is from other countries from, from the basically it's hard. so the tourism sector imagined the season spelling without water for the cool guy in the colors here. things are bad like that one is overkill. after all tourism isn't the biggest water consumer out there, the well, and it's well known that agriculture consumes the most water in spain. right?

so emissions should be taken to basically use water resources and not only in tourism, but in agriculture to single already. yeah, well we want to take a 1st 10 look at agricultural water use. we leave catalonia on the high speed train found to the province of olivia. as we travel, the landscape becomes noticeably dryer. the world's largest collection of green houses here in one of europe's dries regions, each year more than 2 and a half 1000000 tons of produce are grown here. under plastic groups covering some 40000 hector's, for exports throughout europe. ever deeper wells have to be done to keep this massive project going. in some places the ground water is already fallen below sea level and the sea of plastic continues to spread.

mine with my thought is a photographer here is favorite subject is and that is natural beauty. you may say you may think for the for the i made my name is that photography here. i was here in a couple i can express my creativity in nature. i'm on, i love this place. i think you've seen the photos. it's amazing about them. hedge, i'll be right to him of them as the coming up at all. manuel is printed his best photos on magnets, which he sells to tours shops. at least he tries to but it's not that easy. deterred by the nearby plastic green houses, few tourists come to the region. the plastic protects the plants from wind and the precious water from evaporation or. but sometimes the wind dislodges the giant plastic tops blowing them across the land. i'm all kind of on the planet we killing the planet, destroying everything,

nothing more than we have no regard for anything but coffins as another. you know, manuel is using his photography to draw attention to the problem and he said he has placed vacationers on piles of trash to show that and that he is driving off potential tourist. get this 13 again, nice and things in the context. obviously, with people complaining that things aren't being done right, isn't enough. to raise awareness, you have to do something special, no laptop, goal going to feed some 60000 people here rely on greenhouse funding for their living. so manuel is almost alone in this battle against plastic, almost in the middle of this hot, dry sea of plastics, we discovered a small oasis, planting everything himself. and with sanchez ro, place has created up a time and go island to portland. like to see this grew out of the

need for a refuge in this arid environment and installed in the audio. yeah, idea was to create a beautiful place and a waste is and the dryness of the in the see of plastic know this a lot of the plastic though, you can have a place that is fresh and beautiful picking of it and offers the homes in need of plants and animals, and i tried to add up the trees and palms provide natural protection from the strong winds. new need for plastic sheets. the plants also help retain moisture in the garden. it's 5 degrees cooler here than outside. so watering needs are greatly reduced to a property of the senior level of the uh, the arrangement of plants and combining different species with well thought out your regression methods. deep water consumption lower. yeah. typically the normal agricultural land, such as a metal with grass, is that it needs about 2 and a half to $3000.00 leaders of water per year for me to find another. yeah. and you,

we only use about a 3rd of the or he leaves school towards the rose garden when every can. forrest also come by from time to time. but mine with garden is still an insider tip. we leave the small paradise and travel further south. our destination is a much larger nature preserve. it's also surrounded by green houses that consume too much water. done. yanna, national park is of $54000.00 hector nature, preserve, and a refuge for endangered bird species and wild horses. until recently the dawn yana was springs. most important whitland, but now it's threatened to by agriculture. one romero and environmental list with the ecologists in action tells us there are industrial strawberry plantations inside. they need to preserve minutes to get out in order

for them to come on the field, right? i mean the we here right here, and this whole area is strawberry blonde patients with it some legal, some know. so like if i look on below, like i like, i like it is either like a one shows us the legal plantations. it's up for you and then it supplement that we'll see how the firm has taken over these pine woods left and right. so i that i take it the water for the strawberries comes from illegal wells. one wants to show us one i see on file you. we have to film very quickly because the farmers were siphoning off the water could appear at any moment. when we arrived, we see a mass of brick. well, how can the authorities not know about this to okay, is it the postal worker? like, why did these wells exist? well, it, i'm guessing because the administration has allowed them to be built activity. i

might because agriculture is the biggest industry not anymore. and it went back at the moment my, this one brings in more than 1500000000 euros, and just for the 5, don't yanna communities with a new 1500000000 is a lot of money where nobody hear questions, these kind of agriculture with killer it came with a lot of there are hundreds of such wells, pumping out the ground water and drying out the don't. yanna preserve. one is one of the few keeps drawing your attention to it. so he has many enemies among the farmers, the open, you know, they go to the thing i deal with a colleague in ecologists and action has been threatened, they transferred him to work somewhere else because of us personally, i'm not afraid. i believe the truth will set us free was also a little confused on leaving the strawberries and blueberries grown

here end up in german and other european supermarkets. one wants to show us just how much water they need that i'm who go in there. you're supposed to ask permission, but they don't want to be feeling they get by the end of it until they don't get it figured out. but if we go along here where they can see it, so you can feel, i can see it by quick. i'm, i will get out here and have a quick look around. i get, ha, ha, ha, ha ha, by my bad bubble, the legally pump, the water comes to this pond where it's distributed to the surrounding field. one prefers to stay by the car. these things nervous but also angry to get those like on the way take the was without for me to the free. busy the not even the administration knows how much water they take. does he have a roommate? effect on that one rose, how many up it'll be a minute. the

. the national parks main lagoon still has water. many flamingoes have settled here, but one is very worried. the the, the heart of the don't yana is back then to say it's already completely dry on you . for the last 4 years, only 1520 percent has been flooded. if you have amazon, you'll get in the last 2 years. the don't. yanna has gone from a wetland to a dry land wednesday. we'll figure it out here. the goons still look, see dick conservation is like one aren't the only ones drawn to it. every year, 400000 visitors come to see the preserve and to provide a living for hundreds of locals. when sending him, i have come from valencia with their daughters for a guided tour. why? yes, it must be the gay. they're ready. i must be wanted to see it before it suffers any more damage annual they look, especially for the book as

a stop. and because it's getting worse and worse. my little and i know the door begins. the 1st stop is just around the corner. manuel shows them the flamingos galactic, so that we can take a picture of the little get some of you know, i don't know. you can put your phone up to the land, maureen, out. i know that such snapshots make great souvenirs, maria and her sister are thrills. cool. cool. of the lives of, of the big when i was a kid, i thought flamingoes couldn't fly a little business that they could only run with their long legs. oh yeah. what it is we had deep into the park, with the erie and links and wild horses. well, we are not allowed to take the camera because the end illusion regional government

has not permitted us to film. perhaps because they do not want to publicize this satellite images show clearly how much the area has already dried out the state. we drive to a campsite about 10 minutes away, where we meet. but gina, from the book, she's camping and her pop top fan in 38 degree weather. how can she stand it? that's how i talked of else class. i'm not going to mark nathan. besides. now, how does he have i just said this open and hungry. she too was magnets across the ventilation, was great. i even took the sleeping bag out of the $10.00 to $4.00. so because i was told at all, without air conditioning, the pool is right next to her camping spot. tourists are made to feel comfortable here too. but tina knows how skiffs the water is in the nearby park. but at the same time, she enjoys cooling off,

especially now in the mid day sun. that is the address these. i mean, of course i'm visiting about it. i go um, what is for next? i must admit to put is nice, don't publish it to atlanta. appreciate. yeah. above the ones that i really don't need it to be is me in the in that is but the sea is a trick from here in the afternoon. she sets off to hike the dunes without a tour guide the. the temperature is still well over 30 degrees. even the lizards are taking cover. the 1st step is i'm afraid it's quite a long way to i don't know if i'm reading up from the view from up there is supposed to be tremendous,

vast swabs of untouched nature. but the hike through the hot sand is tough after a good hour. but tina has finally made it. and how's the vehicle be good? good. good. good. i like it to lot. so i'm a 100 percent. hi. it's just a bit houghton to last about him back. oh no my strong point bite is the somebody's potential. but great view, beautiful nature. quiet. yeah. wonderful. now a window box, the him of and sent him. their daughters have returned from their tour and are ending the evening with a beer. the better? yes. here it was wonderful to fantastic. really good animals. did we see

that the cows in kite? hm. my gosh. this is hear me. let me know if it must go to the phone, then we hope to see a link spot, you know, lot of friends and, but we'll come back to see it all again. but look at it, they still have their photos as souvenirs on so you can clearly see how drive the don't yanna has become the next morning. we visit the much less gun use towards the resort. it's like another world. you would never know that the national park and it's water crisis are only 20 minutes away. here it's all about recreation and vacation fun.

the showers on the beach are working on like in barcelona. the resort was 1st built in the 19 seventy's and now extends to the national parks buffer zone. biologist, carmen diaz upon the jago, is researching the developments effects on the park. you're closer to your case. there's a lot of talk about how much water the farmers use for the heat, but there is no effort to reduce the water consumption model less kinda yes, but uh if it will see if it, but it's important to the name of the beach visitors should know import time to get so much water is consumed here without people understanding what it means for the national park. because while they are watching is having an effect to getting into the research that shows us that much less gun. yes. gets most of its water from 3 springs, the water of which is actually crucial for the lagoons. mean end the us when i look

back and i feel like crying because he just drawing up though. is there any that? are you named best seal? that's why i'm so discouraged. give us a to time, but we have to make people aware of the problem. can you can and try to find a solution when he came into solution then she would like to see a different approach on the family when he thought, and i'd like to see a completely sustainable complex call, a continuation of the dunes and i phone not hotel blocks with big swimming goals and the lawn and i have received them, but people don't think that way happens how often and so interest is collide ciocca . tourism is one of springs, most important economic drivers, and spain wants to keep it that way. that's one reason to make sure tourists feel the water shortage as little as possible. the on the what about the water scarcity problem in the interior?

we've heard about audio tourism holiday trips centered around the office. for this we go to hiding one of the largest olive growing regions in the world. they also market themselves to tourist hello right. today a tour group from the u. s. has come to see the olive groves manuel he maintenance molina owns the plantation. he conducts tours, in addition to being a farmer, he also tries to raise awareness about conservation. he is convinced that everyone should cut back on water use. one of them to look it up will not go with water consumption. bombing has only one option left hardware, but we must find techniques that require lift also got a formula at the same time we have to get to is to use less more to our dunbar. he chose visitors all about the all of why we have to pick. well, what about black,

all of the see the black under the green pipes? oh i, we go black with a much unity to fix the screen. you start to go from green. the green start to go to large green pine through zillow wish, color lab typo. the color and black. these nets are spread on the ground at harvest time. now visitors can try their hand that knocking the olives out of the treatment. so to only um, what i'm getting some down look is that i could be a real worker here. look at this such as yes, it's very interesting. it's uh, something i wouldn't normally do. it's 42 degrees today.

even the olive trees are suffering and must be watered. though the trees famously require very little water. the droughts in spain have been growing increasingly severe for years. stressed by the heat, the trees develop far fewer olives. the trees may survive, but the harvest greatly decreases. from the market in there, and i figured we would have to sell the olive oil at 4 times the price. so the answer is yes, you could survive with us, but the consumer would have to pay for all the boil as the for a luxury product. so for, for the large irrigation basins are now needed to supply the plantations, ground water is pumped up to fill them. but even this is becoming increasingly difficult. the levels in some wells have already dropped by 100 meters.

after the tour, manuel shop offers polio tours so wide variety of olive based products, oils, chocolate and cosmetics. the whole region lives from marketing olives. cosmetic products in particular, are used to attract tourists to the region. in the bottom, the auto sun on 3 spa hotel, olive based massage oil is the most widely used products built in the same is famous for its olive oil. it moist since the skin better than other creams. the hens like better. it's very pleasant both for the customers and some of the of the olive draws many spot tourists to the range of the be great. i really enjoyed it very relax. daniel,

after the massage dip in the hotel pool is particularly tempting for tourists in the countries interior. but at temperatures well above 40 degrees, up to 5000 liters of water evaporate here in a single day. water that can be put to good agricultural use. the during the night a thunderstorm brings a brief respite. it's actually reading for the 1st time and weeks but after 15 minutes it's all over the we continue to mark the destination for a well healed tourists with high standards. howard the dealing with the water shortage here. the

beach hours, all working official figures was 10700 pounds and the city. but the cost that of sold is best known for its golf courses. the we need conservationist hobbies they luis on mount is the where he explains the problem with golf courses. the model. yeah. think even do there are 22 golf courses and by the way, yeah. and 50 and all of monica province. that's one. that's one of the driest zones and the either the auto pay and see i could delete almost one nice point. if we had enough water resources, there would likely be no conflict with the golf course. is that going on income? but there is very little water here on that, that i move to got what he criticizes a lack of awareness, that water must be conserved here. so you just companies that will finish pay for

the golf course is only used treated water when they would be different with some of the that but they consume a huge amount of drinking water, which is actually need it by the vailable and for momentum. the golf hotels association wants to show us a model project the think that quite the scene one of the most luxurious golf hotels on the cost that does so while other golf courses are fined for a legal watering, everything here is set to be exemplary. we meet ignacio soto the greens keeper here. we have an adult video right now and it's bang and when you see a local a, these screen very agreeing well to, well, you think you're doing about things. but this said the opposite. i mean, we aren't, we're using the water from the house system from the villages. only treated water is used here. and especially hardy grass has been planted as well.

tight at the phone. i don't want to come by one call but a settling. some goals, courses use very delicate gras, seen some areas like the green. this is daniel the comment at the more lovely, but we use a more sustainable home climate garage that's not home to buy the trees. it was to you to buy. they agree mcalisio. he said, i wanted to see the while not really very happy with the fist. i'm all going to come to tell him we're going to and the ball has to roll with little resistance on the green. at least a new body to which is the author of the war. but to me that us ignacio is proud of the new grass. so you have a look is very, very seeing a very tiny very strong as we cannot ask the golf as how they likes the new grass. a club room forbids us from

speaking to them. but ignacio sees no problem with watering the golf courses as long as it's done with reclaimed water. i'll say that we need more golf courses. i'm more area to build the the water on on, on the place. the cosign soul is a genetic thing too much water and this increasing i can use that's my to say one. i should reuse unless you want me to because otherwise it goes to the sea, which is not very good. is the water that the golf course is? don't use just emptied into the sea. to find out we visited a plants and you might be here. wastewater is treated for reuse the city i bought it from here. it is distributed to the 20 golf course is connected to the treatment plan inside of whatever some 25000000 liters per day. and at the end of the tour,

our guide confirms that any leftover water ends up in the sea. aside from what the gulf coast is, use the water that goes into the same company. they both have here they louise, this is a real scandal. the environmental this says the water could be used for agriculture or drinking instead of for golf courses. nobody middle uh give me what, obviously we need to improve the water treatment quality. the ssl was going elsewhere like in las vegas. such water is even used for drinking. so i'll do some part of it. that's what well let's make, i see the most just off from his pain is still a long way off from that. but i much a full source cavity i get there are many different sectors that could be completely supplied with this purified water. going to see why they put out a as if the water were actually treated to a higher quality than strawberries and tomatoes could be irrigated here and not

just bermuda grass. an hours drive further north chose us help urgently such a change is needed. the wind through the page of the doing is to try is place on our journey the vis used to be a haven for flamingoes, but few of them are left now. the westland has dried up before but never as badly as it has now. the so you think it is a actual this has become a desert. neutral still knows typically can i ask whom we can look away? no, but it's obviously a little bit of those. he had the best case now it shouldn't be empty and still coffee and louise see some hope in this catastrophe. last week, yet that mean a single umbrella? the drought is both a problem and an opportunity have to fill out, but by whom nobody will force the politicians to ad goes to 50 out. it's only a mini mom or something. we have to reduce water use in agriculture and tourism. if

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