State of emergency due to heat and drought: holiday region in Spain is struggling with a lack of water. In addition to Barcelona, 201 large communities in northeastern Spain are also affected.
The measure will come into force on Friday (February 2), as the regional government announced on Thursday. There will be new strict restrictions on consumption affecting around six million people (out of a total of around eight million residents of Catalonia) in the provinces of Barcelona and Girona. In the holiday region, which is also very popular with Germans, water consumption is now limited to a maximum of 200 liters per person per day.