Despite the fact that this week there has been rain in several parts of Spain, the water reserve has experienced a new decline. In the last seven days, the reservoirs have lost 56 cubic hectometers of water which, although it represents a decrease of only 0.1 points, this represents the second consecutive week in which the dammed water decreases. Despite this, the southern basins, the most deficient in the Peninsula, have once again improved their figures.
This follows from the data published this Tuesday by the Ministry for the Ecological Transitionwhich updates the numbers belonging to all basins week by week. According to this organization, the water reserve This week accumulates 28,660 cubic hectometersequivalent to 51.1% of its capacity.
The new decrease, in addition, occurs after the rains have been “abundant” according to MITECO throughout the Mediterranean slopean area more prone to droughtand have also “considerably” affected the Atlantic slope. With all this, the maximum accumulated precipitation has occurred this week in Grenadewith 82.9 liters per square meter.
This week’s figures for reservoirs are, despite the new drop, in a situation much more optimal than the one they presented just now a year ago. Thus, in 2023, our country’s dammed water was at 43.6% of its capacity this week, storing 24,400 cubic hectometers, meaning that the reserve now contains up to 4,000 more cubic hectometers and is therefore eight points higher. on.
If you look back a little further, something similar happens when comparing current numbers with those of recent years. In the last decade, this same week of November It is on average at 46.7% with more than 26,160 cubic hectometers. The reserve, in this way, is now up to five points higher and contains 2,000 more cubic hectometers of water.
The most deficient basins are growing
Of the total of sixteen basins that make up the Spanish reserve, the situation continues to be very uneven between north and south. Despite this, in the southern basins, which tend to be the most deficient, its level has been growing for several weeks and this week their numbers have improved again. Mediterránea Andaluza improves again, which even gains two points and is now at 29.5% of its capacity. Guadalete-Barbate also grows, in Cadizwhich stands at 28.16% this week and the basin of the Guadalquivirwhich is already at 35%.
The same occurs with the basin of the Safe. This is configured for another week as the territory cwith the lowest numbers of impounded water, although it has managed to increase 0.4 points in these seven days and is now at 19.4% of its capacity. Similarly, the Guadiana basin improves, to 41.4% this week; that of Júcar, at 48.5% and that of Blockat 56.58%. The internal basins of Catalonia, For their part, they also experience a rise of up to one point in just one week andThey are already at 34.42% of their capacity.
On the opposite side are the basins located in the north of the peninsula that, although with better numbers, They have fallen again in these seven days. The greatest decrease occurs in the Miño-Sil basin, which drops more than two points to 57.8%. Western Cantabrian, for its part, fell more than one point to 57.5% and the Duero fell 0.9 points to 61.6% of its capacity.
The one of Ebro Its figures also worsen and drop to 71%. Behind it is Galicia Costa, which also decreases to 68.5%. Yesand remain at the same level as seven days ago the eastern Cantabrian basins, at 89% this week, and the internal ones of the the Basque Countryat 95.2%, a number with which they once again become the basin with the best numbers in the entire Peninsula.