with the business beyond the actually we don't have a choice. i think that we have little time list to save the pilots. so we have to do what we can as fast as possible. we only have one generation left just 25 years to implement the greatest revolution since the doing of the industrial age. replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy around the world without exception is a global energy to information really cost of the food as well. or is it for our 2 pa, documented sri renewables rather than some jobs, november 25th on dw, the

spanish vacations means here's the link 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 can 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 resident. agriculture also requires huge amounts of water. wells continuously pump the ground water 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 can get gauge . some of the goons have already dried up the so you take a pistol?

yes. on this. if this was doing those people, this has become a desert of law. we can deny it. we can look away, but it's obvious case now it's and maybe that's the end of the bar, so not 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

temperatures 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 of course should help save water to after your to bundle tow. nor am i got a free. i live either is campaigning for shorter showers. well, here we slain. hello, the challenge for me to shower, and this is a simple son watch 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 show. this is the extra,

as some of them said i level 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 concert, 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 your doctor and 6 me know i'm in the shower for 56 minutes, but i only run the water for about 2. so i've already won this challenge as it is and challenge step into i can just wanted to give you enough

a concert thing. water in the shower. yes. but giving up the rooftop pool. not so much more to the poor shore. if there is no other way, but that definitely reduces the attractiveness because all the object assess the effective you take without a pull. it looks very don't is it is 0 dollars. barcelona is beach prominent is about a half hour away. it's mostly low for those who come here. c this summer they have to do without the beef showers. they've been shut off. a window in 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 some notes 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 sand and comp. 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 out we meet guntee mosquito 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 on the, on the notion of these tickets and it was, we'd have to cut back on water at home, you know, do you 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 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 in doubt. well,

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 down was built in the 19 sixty's. now with the lack of rain, it is reemerged home, the motor aim and francesca column color have come to see it. they played here, it's children before the dam was built, their childhood church has suddenly reappeared 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 of the an incredible reunion. but one that also worries them when they see the problem i'm, we're on the put together most of the repeat the way to the for a loaner you like to make a couple. i see a huge problem going from boss a loaner in the entire region depend on the drinking water from these 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 big problem. i get and then i'm going to the living 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. first 3 sir. so i'm sad to say say 3 sir. service. see what a or then the almost at the i, my gosh, there should be deck chairs here. and umbrellas, federal people swimming. loud dogs running on the shore. and on the boat sailing. i want someone should be coming back from waters gave. gonna this tyler people should be sunbathing them. i know totally my number of it. it's that in the long run in the life that was here is gone. love you that know the mileage guy in his table, then we 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 so frustrating and you really feel powerless. and then thinking on the dns, if it's a name for them to, instead of the authorities just tell you to do something else and you see, and they'll just like that without feeling. see, see, 3, i'm interested. 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 at the mouth 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 party circuit tourists 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 maintenance a beautiful country. to be honest. though joe has 434 rooms, but the real highlight is in the basement loud pettis, the hotels environmental manager, explains that this machine collects the tours shower water

the water goes through this filter where it's clean douglas part of the glass, the drum unit, then runs into a central tank where we treat it with fluoride. well for sale, what the load on most a lot. welcome florida e. c. o. well then the clean water is pumped 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 as well. so we still can't simply produce more tab. so if we don't use a cassidy and treat it, we would have to enter the run. now let's see now what's the name of the noise in the model? sick lot of law i would own the most to say i was over 15 years. the hotel is saved 215000000 leaders of fresh water by flushing the toilets with treaty. that is as much as $1000.00 families use any year was do water savings cannot interfere with

vacation fun. the pool is water level has been lowered by 20 centimeters, but no one here wants to empty the pool completely. or you not to see, okay, you see 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 told. yeah. and it's filtered and coordinate to track it and then, but not refilled an applicant live almost a month. and even though that calculation fails to include the many hundreds of leaders of water that evaporate from the pools 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 bestbuy as zoom kindly as he tells us

that in the spring the cattle and regional government bands are filling a vacation home pools. yeah, yeah, yeah. we just stayed empty a nerves with freight on it. it was so extreme that people tried to fill the pools, we'd see water or to bring water, we've tank is from other countries from front. basically it's hard, so the tourism sector imagined the season still a thing 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 best to 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 drain bound to the province of ameria. 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 of grown here. under plastic groups covering some 40000 hector's, for exports throughout europe. ever deeper wells have to be dug 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 i marry as natural beauty. you may to meet them for the for the i made my name is that photography here. we're 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. you know that i'll be right to him of him as it from not by com. manuel is printed his best photos and magnets, which he sells to tours and 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. 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 in a, you know, manuel is using his photography to draw attention to the problem and you say he has placed vacationers on piles of trash to show that and that he is driving off potential tourist get this one would be again nice and think the end they're going to try to figure out they've complaining that things aren't being done wrong season to enough to raise awareness. you have to do something special, no laptop, goal. and if you don't mind, some 60000 people here rely on greenhouse funding for their living. so manuel is almost alone in his battle against plastic, almost in the middle of this hot, dry sea of plastics. we discover a small oasis, planting everything himself. and with sanchez, ro, place has created up a time to go island way through port atlantic to see how they grew out of the

need for a refuge in this arid environment. and installed a new id. though the idea was to create a beautiful place and a waste is and the dryness of the in the see of plastic. no, this a monthly plastic though, you could have a place that is fresh for me. i had a beautiful picture of it and offers a home in need of plants and animals was the driver 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 appropriate the signal, elaborate up the, the arrangement of plants combining different species with well thought out here again, and methods keep water consumption lower. yeah. if i see a normal agricultural land, such as a meadow with grass, is that it needs about 2 and a half to $3000.00 leaders of water per year for me to apply that other. yeah. and

you, we only use about a 3rd of the visit. he leaves school tours through his garden when every can forest 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. don yanna, national park is of $54000.00 hector nature preserve, and a refuge for endangered bird species and wild horses. until recently, the dawn yada was springs most important westland. but now it's threatened by agriculture. one romero and environmental list with the ecologists in action tells us there are industrial strawberry plantations inside the nature

preserve. we're going to get out in order for them to come on the filter on the north of the we here right here. and this whole area is strawberry plantations. are looking at some legal, some notes hold on because i look on below like i literally, it is either like a one shows us the legal plantations. it's up for you at the top of the hill. see how the farm 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 building. and i feel we have to film very quickly because the farmers who are siphoning off the water could appear at any moment. so the email when it, when we arrive, we see a massive break. well, how can the authorities not know about this all day? is it the postal worker? land? why did these wells exist? well, it, i'm guessing because the administration has allowed them to be built that activity

. i might because agriculture is the biggest industry not anymore. and it, when they get the more than this one brings in more than 1500000000 euros. and just for the 5 don't younger 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 of you to a colleague in ecologists in 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 with you all for 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, but i was suppose to ask permission thing, but they don't want to be feeling they get by the end of the nature of i don't know, getting 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 ha, if i'm on a couple, v legally pumped 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 they take the was uh without the me to the free. busy the not even the administration knows how much water they take, does he have a roommate? if that comes out, wonder was how many that program in the,

the national parks, main, laguna still has water. many flamingoes have settled here, but one is very worried. the the, you know, the heart of the don't. yana is back then to say it's already completely dry. when you for the last 4 years, only 1520 percent has been flooded. and most of our new 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 lagoon still looks he. dick conservation is like one aren't the only ones drawn to it every year. $400000.00 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 that for many years ago. there already, i mostly wanted to see it before it suffers any more damage annual they look especially for the book as as the as. busy 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 bad 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, and is that such snapshots make great souvenirs, maria and her sister are thrills. cool. cool. of the lives 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 yes. what it is . we had deep into the park with the eye burying links and wild horses wrong. 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. instead we drive to a campsite about 10 minutes away where we meet, but tina 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 kids on to mark nathan besides. now how does that? yes, i just said this open and hungry. she too was magnets of car. the ventilation was great. i even took the sleeping back out of the 10 to 4 or 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 does is address these. i mean, of course i'm vigilant 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 see 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 was the 1st step is i'm afraid. it's quite a long way to i don't know if i'm reading up for that 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 with tina has finally made it. and how is the view of the good? good, good. good. i'd like you to look. so i'm not so high. it's just a bit hawks and lots of up here that are not my strong point by to see somebody's potential but great view. beautiful nature. quiet 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 by the. busy 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. you know, how much get out the phone that we hope to see a link spot. no longer printed and, but we'll come back to see it all again, but looking at it, they still have their photos as souvenirs on so you can clearly see how drive they've done. yanna has become the next morning. we visit the much less can use towards the resort. it's like another world. you would never know that the national park and its 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 common guys upon jago is researching the developments effects on the park. you're closer to your kid. there's a lot of talk about how much water the farmers use, but there is no effort to reduce the water consumption model us god, yes, but uh if it will see if it, but it's important to the name of the beach visitors should know him for 10 tickets so much water is consumed here without people understanding what it means for the national park. first of all, they are what seems have it at 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 and yes,

when i look back and i feel like crying because the parents who just drawing up know here are you named best here? that's why i'm so discouraged. give us a tea time, but we have to make people aware of the problem can and try to find a solution like in contest winner. and then she would like to see a different approach. and we would need that, and i'd like to see a completely sustainable complex called a continuation of the dunes and not hotel blocks with big swimming loads in the lawn. and i hope you seen them, but people don't think that way happens how i think. and so interest 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 for them to look it up will not cost like with water consumption. bombing has only one option left hardware, but we must find techniques that require less fulton got affordable. at the same time. we have to get tourism to use less. most of our dunbar, you chose visitors all about the all of why we have to pick. well,

what about black olive longer sees the black under the green pipes. oh i we that go black. we've been maternity to fix the scale your thought to go from green, the green start to go to large green pine through yellowish color lab typo the color and black. these nets are spread on the ground at harvest time. now visitors can try their hand at knocking the olives out of the treatment soto only. um, what i'm getting some down look is that i could be a real worker here. look at this. so it does. yes, it's very interesting. it's 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 had 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 and then 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 olive oil as the for a luxury product for, for, for the, 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 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 leaders of water evaporate here in a single day. water that can be put to good agricultural use. the during the night a thunderstorm brings up refreshments. it's actually reading for the 1st time and weeks but after 15 minutes it's all over the we continue to my be a destination for a well healed tourists with high standards. howard the dealing with the water shortage here, the

beach hours, all working official figures with 10700 pools and the city. but the cost that of sold is best known for its golf courses. the we need conservation is probably a 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 bear and a c i could to be done with some nice point. if we had enough water resources, there would likely be no conflict with the golf course. is it going to come? but there is very little water here, i phone that i, we pulled out what he criticizes, a lack of awareness, that water must be conserved here. see those companies that will finish pay for the

golf course is only used treated water when they would be different when some of the already that. but they consume a huge amount of drinking water and which is actually need to buy the billable. and for a moment on the golf hotels association wants to show us a model project. the think of course you've seen one of the most luxurious golf hotels on the costs that does so while other golf courses are fined for illegal watering. everything here is set to be exemplary. we meet ignacio soto, the greens keeper here. we have uh an adult video right now and its paint. 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 houses i'm from the village is only treated water is used here. and especially hardy grass has been planted as well.

tie that the me now 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, the see if they any of the, the more lovely. but we use a more sustainable home climate garage that's not home to buy the trees. it was the clean mcalisio it good. i want to see the while. not really very happy with it. the 1st i'm all going to come to tell them we're going to and the ball has to roll with little resistance on the green. at least a new body to which is uh on the war. but the new address, the ignacio is proud of the new grass. so you have a look is very, very seeing a very tiny i'm very strong. we cannot ask the golf as how they liked 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 concern, so is a genetic thing too much water and these increasing i can use as much as i want. i should reuse of muscles that 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 visit a plan to me on my be here. wastewater is treated for reuse the you that i bought it from here. it is distributed to the 20 golf course is connected to the treatment plan inside of whatever of some $25000000.00 leaders per day. and at the end of the

tour, our guide confirms that any leftover water ends up in the sea. yeah. 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. what i see on this as ours going elsewhere like in las vegas, such water is even used for drinking. so i'll do some part of it. that's what i'm not familiar with. i see the most just thought from his pain is still a long way off for me that but i much a full 1st cavity i get. there are many different sectors that could be completely supplied with this purified water. going to see why they bought out 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 shows us help urgently such a change is needed. the f, when did they create 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 take it if they actual this has become a desert new roof during the day, but we can do that i as we can look away little, but it's obviously a little bit of see if the schedule now it shouldn't be at the end of a still heavier 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 got. it will force the politicians to act go to 50. i, they told me that mom or something we have to reduce water, use an agriculture and

a tourism if we are to survive. and these actually, i mean you, that the but chime like water is running out the recycling resolution with fluorescent currently testing a completely new hosting plan for plastic waste. right now, one of your past explain how does this innovative process work tomorrow today in discussing that is, oh d, w,

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