![]() Located about 60 miles north of Barcelona, the reservoir is a key drinking water source for the region, but in late April it was only at 7% of capacity. “This is the worst period that we have had for the last 100 years,” Samuel Reyes, director of the Catalan Water Agency, told CNN. “They are typical of Catalonia’s Mediterranean climate,” said Albert Ruhi, a freshwater ecologist at the University of California, Berkeley, who is originally from Catalonia.īut a significant lack of rain and snow have made this one much, much drier, he told CNN. It’s becoming increasingly hard to make ends meet as crops shrivel through lack of water – or cannot be planted at all.ĭroughts are a fact of life in this corner of Spain. The lack of water is starting to feel like an existential crisis for farmers such as Caudevilla and he is worried about the future of his profession. Nothing is going to be harvested,” he said.Ĭaudevilla, who grows maize, sorghum and other crops in Gimenells in Catalonia, has been hit hard by the severe drought which has hammered this part of northeastern Spain. “If the weather does not change it will be zero. ![]() Standing in his field of stunted, withered maize, Santi Caudevilla is very worried. ![]()
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