Spain’s consumption epidemic
- From: Vol 10, Issue 1 (January 2009)
- Category: General
- Region: Europe
- Country: Spain
A national environment congress has raised the profile of water consumption in Spain. The current trends are worryingly unsustainable.
Spain will have to find an extra 22% of its 2001 water resource capacity by 2015 in order to satisfy projected demand, the ninth bi-annual National Environment Congress heard in December.
According to Environment Ministry figures, assuming 2001 levels of efficiency in urban and agricultural distribution systems, water distributed for domestic, industrial and agricultural use will have to increase by ...
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