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Those who had the chance to go skiing this winter were able to see it: the month of February which ended was the second warmest ever recorded in France since records began in 1900. If the problems of Droughts on the other hand seem far from us at this stage, they have become insoluble for Spain.
Catalonia and Andalusia are hit by an unprecedented drought – the worst in 1,200 years, points out La Repubblica.
In Barcelona, rain has been waiting for 40 months now.
The Catalan government has triggered a state of emergency which imposes restrictions on 6.6 million people in 200 Catalan towns, points out the Italian daily.
But beyond these emergency measures, it is now a question of securing the future.
In 2023, Catalonia invested 2.4 billion euros to build reservoirs, develop rainwater collection infrastructure and build desalination plants.
The autonomous region has…
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