Here comes the snow?
Gemma and I are gearing up for a 3rd trip to the Pyrenees this Easter weekend and I'm relieved to see that temperatures are dropping and snow is forecast. We'll try to get some more decent photos of the last jaunt in this winter season… by the way, we are totally not rich pijos with unlimited funds. This is more a case of enchufle than anything else.
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March 18, 2008 | Filed Under Catalonia
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Hello,
On a completely different subject (well, snow is water), I heard this morning that drinking water will be shipped to Barcelona from Tarragona and Marseilles to forestall depletion of the water reserves of the city.
Well, the water coming from France will be taken in the Rhône river, which is heavily contaminated with PCB. Hopefully these only rest in sediments and contaminate the fish, but not the water ???
I guess you should stick to drinking beer.
It's true: Voll Damm is much better than water.
I think what we need is desalination plants so that we can drink the lovely Mediterranean sea. That would surely make more sense than transporting dirty French water over here. Sorry if that sounded jingoistic.
Fresh water can be one of the by-products of the big solar-powered plants like the Seville PS10 plant.
As they produce steam, they can be used to desalinate water. It would be nice to get both water and electricity from all the sunshine in Barcelona.
At the same time, maybe working on stopping population growth in the city might be a good idea.
I don’t find your remark too jingoistic, some French water is not dirty, but the Rhône one is certainly yucky.
Hmm well I'm not sure that population growth in BCN is really so high that it ought to be 'stopped'. Indeed, many would argue that Catalonia and Spain still have a population growth level below what they'll need in the future as we all age.