Córdoba, Jul 8 (EFE).- Andalusian municipalities are already suffering water cuts due to the drought situation in the country and with progressively increasing temperatures, at the beginning of the summer in which “responsible consumption” is advocated. .
In the interior, in the north of Córdoba, nearly 80,000 residents of the Alto Guadiato and Los Pedroches regions continue without regular drinking water and with problems in the supply of this resource since the end of March, when the Sierra Boyera reservoir it dried up and the water from La Colada that was transferred to it arrived contaminated by anomalous values of organic carbon.
Once the problems of pumping the water have been solved, which is suitable for domestic use but not for consumption, the residents go to the supply points that they carry out using tanker trucks.
Night cuts and distributions with vats
Further south, in Lucena, there have been nocturnal supply cuts due to the drop in water tanks in recent days, which is why weekly watering in parks and gardens has been reduced to a minimum and they are not ruled out. more restrictive measures until the normal level of dammed water is recovered.
In Montilla, those nocturnal supply cuts are no longer ruled out with the aim of reducing current consumption by at least 10 percent.
In the province of Malaga, four municipalities, Vélez-Málaga, El Borge, Almáchar and Iznate, all in the Axarquía region, already have nocturnal water cuts due to the situation of the La Viñuela reservoir, which supplies the area, and which this Wednesday is at 9.1 percent of its capacity.
Colmenar also receives four tanks of water a day, with some 100,000 liters, and Rincón de la Victoria has cut off the supply to the showers and footbaths on the beaches, where restrictions are also applied by municipalities on the Western Costa del Sol such as Torremolinos.
Other towns such as Coín, Cártama or Alhaurín de la Torre have issued proclamations in which they recall the Junta’s restrictions on the use of drinking water to fill private pools, irrigate gardens and wash cars outside authorized establishments, as well as in ornamental fountains. without closed water circuit.
Eliminate beach showers
Casariche, a town in the Sierra Sur of Seville with about five thousand inhabitants, is the first in this province to suffer daily water cuts, from ten at night to six in the morning due to the low level of the wells of the that is supplied
The drought has led some municipalities on the coast of Cádiz, such as Chipiona, San Roque, Vejer de la Frontera or Zahara de los Atunes, to remove showers and footbaths from their beaches, in a gesture that Ecologistas en Acción considers “responsible”. with the situation of one of the communities most affected by the lack of water.
“We think it is necessary to contain everything and above all not to design new growth in consumption. These services on the beaches are a recently created need, they can be suppressed without special harm to anyone, as a great example that city councils can give to citizens of being careful with water management,” says Lola Yllescas, head of Ecologistas in Action in Cadiz.
According to his calculations, a shower on the beach consumes 120,000 liters of water per day, an expense that does not imply that users return later to take another shower in their accommodation.
Town halls such as Conil de la Frontera have decided to maintain its use as a tourist service, others, such as San Fernando as well, but with a campaign urging responsible use of water, and others, such as de Cádiz and Rota, they are, already started the summer, they are still thinking about whether or not they should close these services. EFE