White elephants on parade
- From: Vol 9, Issue 2 (February 2008)
- Category: General
- Region: Europe
- Country: Spain
The long-term economic viability of Spain’s desalination boom is being called into question. Unless a deal can be struck with irrigators, its critics may be proved right.
Spain is entering its fourth consecutive year of drought, one of the most severe on record, but has so far not suffered any of the interruptions to drinking water supply which affected 25% of the population during the last cyclical drought in the 1990s.
The Socialist government, whose four-year term of office has coincided almost exactly with the current dry ...
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