The weather conditions in Spain have done nothing to alleviate the strain on those politicians with responsibility for water. In the south where drought threatens for ten months of the year, in Andalucia, Murcia and the Costa Blanca enough water has fallen in the last few days to fill a reservoir capable of sustain those areas for the entire year. At the same time the government has decreed that water should come from the desalination plants to feed the growing number of developments in those areas.
This is very good for those who have invested in desalination plants, the energy sources that feed those plants and the water companies. However, helping nature do the task for free might have been a better option than feeding the money. At one time, not so long ago, Spain relied on its system of Cisterns and irrigation laid down by the Moors after their occupation of Andalucia and Almeria. It was this science that gave Spain its initial claim to civilisation. The Arab invaders from Africa brought with them a knowledge of 'old' science.
