Recent rains increase water reserves to nearly 30%

 

Water levels in Catalonia's reservoirs have risen after heavy rains over the past three days.

The total volume of water in the nine internal reservoirs rose from 27.6% on Thursday to 29.5% on Monday morning.

With this increase, the reservoirs are getting a respite after a slight but continuous decline since July, when the water level was 37%.

Despite the heavy rains in September, it did not rain near the headwaters of the rivers, which did not benefit the water reserves.

But the current level of 30% in the reservoris is far from the low of 14.3% that they reached in March this year, prompting the government to activate emergency drought measures. 

The weekend rains benefited especially the La Baells reservoir, in the interior of Catalonia, which exceeded 50% for the first time since July.