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The PSOE of Mojácar (Manuel Zamora) have complained that the new sidewalks being built near the fuente have been sloped the wrong way.

According to Manuel “it’s obvious just by looking at them that the next time we have a heavy rainfall, the water will run towards the homes and businesses, not towards the road and the drains”.

Manuel is also complaining that the new pavements have cut parking spaces “by a lot”. No worries, you’ll soon have a nice car park at the top of the hill!

And to think it was less than a minute ago I was insinuating that there was nothing to do in Mojácar on a wet day. Now we can all go and look at the flooded shops.

A shortcircuit caused by the high temperatures yesterday destroyed 8 pumps at a major pumping station and cut off water supplies to the Levante.

12 municipalities are currently without water.

GALASA are working on the problem, and say it may be solved by Sunday.

A cubic meter of water from Galasa will now cost an average of €1.86 after the water company increased its prices by around 16% without really bothering to tell anyone.

Oh, and it still comes out brown.

After sidelining Mojácar in the POTALA plans, cutting back on it’s development and limiting it’s future possibilities in order to promote the (as yet unbuilt) future megacity of Llano Central, the Junta has made up its mind on the future of Mojácar -

They’re going to build an extremely large sewage farm there.

18 months, 16 million euros (plus another 14 million on pipes) and it will service L.G., Turre, Bédar, Mojácar, Garrucha and others.

It will be on the site of the current one, but it will be “a lot larger”.

We’re promised that this will “benefit residents”, according to Clemente García (Environmental goon from the Junta).

Source: El Almería

How many have you sat down and wondered “I wonder how much water we have left?”

Well, here ya go: http://www.embalses.net. The state and capacity of every dam in Spain, updated… often. For example, I see that Cuevas is running at 1.19%.

Well I never. Just read an interesting report about how Aguadulce owes its name to the incredibly pure springwater found in the area. Old timers remember how if you dug down in the sand on the beach you could drink the water found there.

An investigation by the National Institute of Colonisation in 1960 found an underground flow of water straight from the Sierra Nevada down to the beach there, and recommended that the whole area be “colonised” for agriculture. Remember, this was the time of central Fascist planning. However, the whole ideal of agriculture was pushed out by tourism from Almeria – far more profitable – and the farms went elsewhere.

Nowadays, of course, the groundwaters’ as polluted as anywhere else.

Vera town hall is crowing about how their new water service is the first in the Levante to obtain a “potable” classification by Sanidad. Meaning you can now safely drink the tap water in Vera. Nowhere else of course, as Galasa continues to pump out it’s mineral laden brownish sludge.

Congratulations. Let’s see if this makes Galasa invest in some new water filters.

As you will remember, last year the mayor of Vera (Partido Andalucista) completed on his promise to seperate his water network from Galasa. Thus causing Galasa (HQ in Vera, BTW) to put the water rates up to annoy him.