MADRID, November 21 (EUROPA PRESS) –
Reservoirs added 56 cubic hectometres of water this week, or 0.1 percent of the total, bringing the water supply up to 43.7 percent of its total capacity, according to data from the Transitional Ecological and Demographic Challenge Ministry.
Specifically, this week the reservoirs will hold 24,470 cubic hectometres after adding the rainfall that hit the Atlantic side, as it was practically zero on the Mediterranean side. The largest amount was collected in Santiago de Compostela with 82.8 liters per square meter.
In terms of area, the reserve by area is 76.7 percent in the eastern Cantabrian Sea; 78.8 percent, in western Cantabria; at 85.1 percent, Miño-Sil; at 91.2 percent, Galicia Costa; 66.7 percent, inland basin of the Basque Country; at 56.3 percent, Duero; at 56.7 percent, the Tagus; 59 percent, Tinto, Odiel and Piedras and 51.9 percent, Ebro.
However, they are below half of their total capacity in the Guadiana basin, which is 25.3 percent; Guadalete Barbate, 14.8 percent; Guadalquivir, 18.7 percent; Andalusian Mediterranean Basin at 20.8 percent; Segura, 19.8 percent; 46.1 percent, Júcar and 18.8 percent, the internal basin of Catalonia.
The data reflects that at this time the reservoirs are storing 10.71 percent less water than the decade average, but are already 32.67 percent higher than the volume of water held a year ago.
In the exact same week, the year-ago hydraulic reserve was 32.90 percent; and to 39.06 percent in 2021. To find a similar amount of dammed water in the same week, we have to go back to 2019, when they were at 43.60 percent, and to 2008, when they were at 43.84 percent.
