The rains of 2025 have reduced the capacity of the swamps to almost half after decades of desperate drought. With one week to go, the year will end with the swamps 47.45% of its total capacityafter a … increase of 164 hm³ (+1.37%) last week. They store 5,668 hm³.
To understand the contact, compared to the same week last year, There are an additional 1,556 hm³ dammed, since then the stored resources were 4,112 hm³ (34.42%). Furthermore, compared to the average of the last ten years, the reservoirs have 884 hm³ more, knowing that this average is 4,784 hm³ (40.05%).
This represents 13% more in just one year. The reservoirs have increased noticeably, with this year being practically the exception since 2010. It is not in vain that since Doñana they have already warned that it is the first wet year in 15 years.
Tanks at 47% capacity
By hydrographic demarcations, that of the Guadalquivir reaches 3,677 hm³, which represents 45.76% of its total capacity. Compared to the previous week, it increased by 69 hm³ (+0.86%). If we compare it to the same week in 2024, this municipality records 853 hm³ more retained, since then it has stored 2,824 hm³. Compared to the average of the last ten years (3,049 hm³, 37.94%), there are 628 hm³ more.
The Andalusian Mediterranean basins They store 515 hm³, which represents 44.67% of their total capacity (1,152.83 hm³). Last week there was an increase of 10 hm³ (+0.87%). Compared to the same dates in 2024, there are 171 hm³ more, since then the volume was 344 hm³ (30.07%). Compared to the average of the last ten years, which amounts to 463 hm³ (40.47%), there are 52 hm³ more.
Drought gives respite
In the demarcation Guadalete-Barbate, Where this increase is most noticeable, with a total capacity of 1,651 hm³, the volume seized amounts to 723 hm³ (43.79%), after an increase of 24 hm³ last week (+1.45%). Compared to the same week of 2024, where the stored resources were 469 hm³ (28.41%), there are 254 hm³ more. Compared to the average of the last ten years (678 hm³, 41.07%), the current volume is 45 hm³ higher.
For its part, the demarcation Red-Odiel-Piedras-Chanza It accumulates 753 hm³, which represents 67.53% of its total capacity, set at 1,114.95 hm³. Last week it recorded an increase of 61 hm³ (+5.47%). Compared to the volume available on the same dates in 2024, there is 278 hm³ more. Compared to the average of the last eight years (594 hm³, 53.28%), the current volume exceeds this figure by 159 hm³.
The Government Council reported this Tuesday the signing of the contract of the construction of the new wastewater treatment plant (STEP) and the general collector of Cantoria, in Almeriafor an amount of 3,370,661.70 euros. This action will benefit a maximum population of 3,884 inhabitants.
The works, declared of general interest to the community in 2010, will serve both the main core of Cantoria and El Llano. The current wastewater treatment plant, built in 2003 and Located northwest of the historic center, It has an obsolete and incomplete treatment system, in addition to very poor maintenance, which prevents proper wastewater purification.
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