{"id":136703,"date":"2025-01-20T07:54:27","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T05:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/after-intense-flooding-barcelona-is-still-battling-drought\/"},"modified":"2025-01-20T07:54:27","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T05:54:27","slug":"after-intense-flooding-barcelona-is-still-battling-drought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/after-intense-flooding-barcelona-is-still-battling-drought\/","title":{"rendered":"After intense flooding, Barcelona is still battling drought"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136703\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>As climate change makes rainfall more intense and infrequent, Catalonia&#8217;s authorities face the task of providing water security and drinking water to millions. Barcelona&#8217;s Parc de Joan Mir\u00f3 covers four city blocks on the edge of the Eixample district, a dusty square dotted with palm trees, pink blushed bougainvillea, and a tall brightly coloured pillar titled Dona i Ocell (&#8221;woman and bird&#8221;), designed by the Catalan artist.<\/p>\n<p>After several years of drought, it&#8217;s dustier than ever. The shallow fountains have been drained, and the city has even taken to chopping down wilting palm trees before they can topple over. In eastern Catalonia, the three years from 2021-23 had some of the worst drought in recorded history.<\/p>\n<p>But at certain points through winter 2024, beneath the park, a huge cistern 17m (58ft) deep becomes filled with cloudy rainwater. These are the two extremes the city finds itself in, where there can be too much water and still not enough. &#8221;We are suffering this severe drought, and at the same time we are suffering some results of extreme precipitation,&#8221; says Marc Prohom, head of climatology at the Meteorological Service of Catalonia.<\/p>\n<p>After three years of dry conditions, Catalonia&#8217;s authorities announced a drought emergency early in 2024, which lasted for several months. In early 2025, low water reserves mean the city and most of the surrounding area were under an alert for drought.<\/p>\n<p>Households were restricted to 200 litres (53 gallons) of water a day \u2013 less than a typical bathtub. Using tap water to water gardens, fill pools, or wash cars was forbidden under threat of fines. Hundreds of public showers along the city&#8217;s beaches were turned off. Reservoirs levels had dropped so low that they were emptied entirely as authorities began to pool the water into fewer ponds, as the shallow water threated to turn toxic when summer arrived.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/future\/article\/20250116-barcelonas-urgent-search-for-water-after-floods\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/future\/article\/20250116-barcelonas-urgent-search-for-water-after-floods\">BBC<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/environmental-news-en\/after-intense-flooding-barcelona-is-still-battling-drought\/\">After intense flooding, Barcelona is still battling drought<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[4450,575,2181],"class_list":["post-136703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-barcelona","tag-environmental-news-en","tag-flooding"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}