Ayesha Tandon The extreme heatwave that swept across Spain, Portugal, Morocco and Algeria in April 2023 was “at least 100 times more likely” due to climate change, according to a new “rapid attribution” study. During the last week of April, temperatures surged up to 20C higher than normal across large parts of the western Mediterranean,… Continue reading Western-Mediterranean heatwave ‘almost impossible’ without climate change
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Reversing The Tide: Spain Moves Into Water Remunicipalization
David Sánchez/Food and Water Europe Valladolid, a city of around 300,000 inhabitants took the first step to recover public control of water management Just one year ago we were arguing about how Spain was still resisting the last wave of water privatization, as a result of austerity policies and debt, seasoned with corruption scandals. But as… Continue reading Reversing The Tide: Spain Moves Into Water Remunicipalization