After more than 1,000 days of drought, the Catalan government has formally announced a state of emergency, extending water restrictions to Barcelona and the surrounding region.
A severe and prolonged drought has taken hold in Spain as wildfires wreaked havoc unseasonably early and reservoirs dried up almost completely, with authorities fearing the dry spell could be the worst the country has faced in decades.
Barcelona and large swathes of Spain’s northeast are going under water restrictions as a months-long drought that has devastated crops starts to put the pinch on human activities in the Mediterranean country.
Contentious plans to erect a wind farm off the northeastern coast of Spain are part of a tense debate over where to locate new renewable energy projects across Europe.
