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spanish vacations meeting. 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 $3.00 to $5.00 times more water than barcelona rather than the agriculture also requires huge amounts of water. wells continuously pump around 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 can get gauge . some of the goons have already dried up. so you think it is to us from the shift as often as what type of this has become a desert. we can deny it. we can look away a bit of,

but it's obvious cuz 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 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 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, a wife 4 minutes because there was house organization says that the media of a shower is 10 minutes and we waste 200 liters. and then these like these games of this tell it until 4 minutes. it's only to waste 80 meters per show. this is the extra as 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 concert, drinking his morning coffee on the hotels roof deck. she sees the form in a 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 clear and you know, if you mean by so it's been stuff your doctor and 6 me and i'm in the shower for 56 minutes or so. 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 a concert thing. 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 attractive, you to it without a pull. it looks very don't is it is 0 dollar 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 mcenroe, 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. yep. 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 impression man, i'm going i'm covered in sans and can't get yourself and i have to go home like that. where you come 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, consumer taurus do use on average $3.00 to $5.00 times more water than barcelona resident. i even just convince the people here are unhappy because nothing ever changed. and that's like i'm, you know, it's in those vehicles 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 under a little problem i could say. but they never confront the real problem. i know that

in summer the population doubles or triples with taurus, young, and water consumption, explode, consumer accessible, dante shows us as born 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, you know, 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 disciplines and a new airport runaway being built when there's not enough water combat. well, it has to be regulated to say that they are and 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 reemerged. home, the motor aim and francesca column color have come to see it. they played here with 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 moved in half, and 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 pure and the don't 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 the things i feel doing for the problem i'm, we're on the put together 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 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 in there, i'm going to live with the south church and it's 23 meter tower ever disappeared.

below the water surface again, the in the beach 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 to push 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 water scape, i know that i just all the people should be sunbathing them. i know totally understand. it. sat in the long run and 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 you, 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, because they're 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 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 party circuit doors frequent the hotel, somebody like glen and johan from amsterdam. it's 2 in the afternoon and they're 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. the hotel has $434.00 rooms, but the real highlight is in the basement. layout of 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 as part

of the glass, the mean and then runs into a central tank where we treat it with fluoride. well, for sale, what the load on most the lab work? a little issue. yeah, well then the clean water is come through these pipes, stuff 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 more so we still comp simply 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 a noise in the model number to see our over 15 years, the hotel is saved. 215000000 leaders of fresh water by flushing the toilets was treated. that is as much as $1000.00 families use in a year was due water savings cannot interfere with vacation fun. the pools water

level has been lowered by 20 centimeters, but no one here once to empty the pool completely. are you not to feel crazy that up? of course you can send people to the beach allowing 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 coordinated regularly, 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 bestbuy as zoom kindly as he tells us that in the spring,

the capital and regional government spends the filling of vacation home pools. yeah, yeah. we just stayed empty. a nerves were afraid in the unit. it was so weak stream, the people trying to feel that pools we'd 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 or 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 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 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 as many as 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. okay. well, you've seen the photos, it's amazing about them headed out a way to unlock them as if i'm not back. all. manuel is printed his best photos on magnets, which he sells to towards jobs. 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 now manuel is using his photography to draw attention to the problem. anything he has placed vacationers on piles of trash to show that and that he is driving off potential tourist. get this when we again are nice and things in the context. obviously with people complaining that things aren't being done wrong season to enough to raise awareness. you have to do something special, no laptop, all 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 at the time and go island to put a line next to see this grew out of the need for a refuge in this era, it environment and then install no 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 for my beautiful picking of it and offers a home. it's 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 signal e l, a level of the uh, the arrangement of plants and combining different species with well thought out your vacation 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, i knew we only use about a 3rd of the or the leads go 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. 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 yana 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. they need to preserve minutes to get out in order for him to come on the field, the fellow we here right here. and this whole area is strawberry plantations. are

looking at some legal, some noise when i get i look on below like i like i live. 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 and i they take it to the water for the strawberries comes from illegal wells. one wants to show us one as an independent, but i feel 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,

when they get the more than this one brings in more than 1500000000 euros. and just for the 5, don't yanna communities as a new one. point 5000000000 is a lot of money where nobody here questions these kind of agriculture whitfield, 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 it. personally, i'm not afraid. i believe the truth will set is free to go through a little bit because i'm 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 give it to anybody. so if i 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 on my behalf by law, if i'm of a football, the legally pumped water comes to this pond where it's distributed to the surrounding field. one prefers to stay by the car. he seems nervous, but also angry. to get those like i'm the, they take the was without the meter, the free body, not even the administration knows how much water they take this, the rooming effect on that wonder was having a little bit minutes the

don't you know, 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. it's already completely dry. wine 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 whitland to a dry land wednesday. we'll figure it out. here's the goon still look. see dick, conservationists 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 mostly wanted to see it before it suffers any more damage on you and they look especially for the book as as the. busy because it's getting worse and worse. my little and i know the drawer 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 and a lot of you can put your phone up to the land, maureen, out, and the such snapshots make great souvenirs. maria and her sister are thrills. cool. cool of us having to figure out 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. but as we get deep into the park with the i burying 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 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 she's on to mark nathan for saw no. yes, i just said this open and hungry sheets here with magnets, scar, the ventilation was great. i even took the sleeping bag out of the $10.00 to $4.00 . so because i was told to, oh, 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 that 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 you. all the ones that i really needed to see 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,

but tina has finally made it. and how is the view of good, good. good. i like it a lot. so i'm a 100 percent. hi. it's just a bit houghton to last about him back. oh, no, my strong point by it 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. 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, you know, so i must get out to the phone that i'm hoping 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. so 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. yes, torres, 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 seventies and now extends to the national parks buffer zone. biologist, carmen diaz upon the jago is researching the developments effects on the park. you, of course, i get you over to, 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 of scott. yes, for the for you receive it, but it's important to feed them at the beach visitors should know him for 10 tickets. so much water is consumed here with people understanding what it means for the national park. for some all they are watching is have a to reflect to getting into the research that shows us that montela scan. yes, gets most of its water from 3 springs. the water of which is actually crucial for the goods. i mean in the us when i look back, i feel like crying,

developing, so just drawing up though, is there any that? are you named best seo? 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. i can think that sort of thing and it's almost as you would like to see a different approach about it. and then we would need that, and i'd like to see a completely sustainable complex called a continuation of the dunes and i phone not hotel blocks with big swimming goals and the lawn. i hope you seen them, but people don't think that way. it happens how often 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 . 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 hiring 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 the bumper. look it up. when that goes with water consumption bombing has only one option left hardware, but we must find techniques that require less also got affordable. at the same time we have to get tourism to use less more to our dunbar. you chose visitors all about the all of so why do we have pick? well, what about black all of longer says the black under the green pipes. oh i,

we go black with the maternity to face the screen. you start to go from green, the green start to go to large green pine through zillow. wish, color lab typo color. i'm back 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 something 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 40 try 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 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 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 and 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 skin better than other creams. the hands slide better. it's very pleasant both for the customers and some of the and the olive draws many spot drawers 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 country's

interior. but at temperatures well above 40 degrees, up to 5000 leaders of water evaporate here in a single day. water that could be put to good agricultural use. the during the night of thunderstorm brings a brief respite. it's actually raining 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 $10700.00 pounds and the city,

but the cost that of sold is best known for its golf courses. the we need tons, probation is tabio. the luis on mount is the where he explains the problem with the 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 and a see i could to meet almost who knows when if we had enough water resources, there would likely be no conflicts with the golf course. is that going on an account, but there is very little water here that i'm forget what he criticizes, a lack of awareness, that water must be conserved here. so you just cause that one thing to stay for the golf course is only used treated water when they would be different when someone

the that but they consume a huge amount of drinking water, which is actually immediate by the vailable in for momentum. the golf hotels association wants to show us a model project, the fink, quite to see one of the most luxurious golf hotels on the cost that does so. while other golf courses are fined for legal 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 it's paint. and when you see a local a, the screen very agreeing well to, well, you think you're doing about things. but this said the opposite. i mean, we are, we're using the water from the houses and 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 grosse in some areas. like the green, the sit down, you're not going but the more lovely. but we use a more sustainable, warm climate garage that's not home by the trees. it was the clean mcalisio you get, i want 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 uh on the war. but it means that there s ignacio is proud of the new grass of the so you have a look is very, very seeing a very tiny i'm very strong. we cannot ask the golfers how they like 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 that's my to say one 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 and 5 whatever of some $25000000.00 leaders per day. and at the end of the tour, our guide confirms that any left over 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. the 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 as even used for drinking photos. there is some part of it. that's what well let's make, i see the most just thought from his pain is still a long way off from that. but i much a 1st cavity i get. there are many different sectors that could be completely supplied with this purified water one and 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 do they need to read 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 neutral, was doing those was typically can i ask whom we can look away a little, but it's obviously a little bit of a let's see if the schedule now it shouldn't be mc and still coffee or louise. see some hope in this catastrophe of last year. i mean a single umbrella. the drought is both a problem and an opportunity has to fill out, but by whom nobody will force the politicians to ad goes to 50 i. they told me it either mom or something. we have to reduce water use in agriculture and a tourism. if we are to survive by having these actually, i mean you that the but time like

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