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There is still a lot of water missing in the Sau reservoir, as seen in this series of photographs and in this video that I share in La Vanguardia’s Readers’ Photos.
It is true that the reservoir is better than a few weeks ago, when it stood at 1% of its capacity. It is now at 5.76%, even better than a year ago, when it registered a level of 6.66%.
In general, in Catalonia, the rains that occurred in March ensured two months of reserves but did not solve the problem of drought.
The reserves of the Ter and the Llobregat increased, but still insufficiently. It is true that some of the ruins of the old town of Sant Romà de Sau are already partially submerged again, but the reservoir is far from recovering its best version.
To give us an idea, the current state of the reservoir is 9.52 hm³, when the average of the last five years is 101.20 hm³ and the maximum volume of the reservoir is 165.26 hm³. Therefore, it is still very far from its best version.
