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Unfortunately, the drought has also reached Gavà beach, in Baix Llobregat, where I have captured this photograph for Las Fotos de los Lectores de La Vanguardia.
Serious restrictions due to the severe drought, despite the rains of recent days. It seems that we do not overcome the situation. A summer without showers awaits us on the metropolitan beaches.
The beach season in the towns in the Barcelona area is marked this summer by showers closed by the drought decree, a measure that will save 80,000 cubic meters of water between June and September, according to the Barcelona Metropolitan Area (AMB). .
The forecast of a summer that is hotter than usual is accompanied by a situation of extreme drought, which has barely been alleviated by the rainfall in May.
The metropolitan area is in an exceptional phase -the penultimate step on the seriousness scale-, which entails restrictions on the use of water.
On the beaches, this means that this summer the showers to remove the salt or sand from your feet are not operational, except on the beaches of the city of Barcelona, ??where one per beach does work.
In parallel, the internal stopcocks of all the showers and footbaths have been renewed to limit possible losses from the pipes as much as possible.
