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The drought has transformed the Salt del Cabrit, at the tail of the Sau reservoir, with hardly any water due to the extreme drought, especially when compared to other past meteorological phenomena, such as the Gloria storm of 2020, as can be seen in these photographs in The Photos of the Readers of La Vanguardia.
To the south of Sant Martà Sescorts we find the well-known Salt del Cabrit, where the stream rushes into the pools (now non-existent) and the Sau marsh, in front of the monastery of Sant Pere de Casserres.
What is normally the spectacular Barra de Ferro waterfall, on the Riera de les Gorgues, very close to the hermitage of Sant Bartomeu Sesgorgues, is now another landscape affected by drought.
In fact, it has become a grass meadow and only a trickle of water falls from the waterfall, very timid compared to other years. Osona’s herds are having difficulty finding fresh pasture due to the persistent drought, which is not only having an effect on agriculture in Catalonia, but also on livestock.
But curiously, the cattle are finding an ally in the Sau swamp, where grasses grow where everything was once flooded with water.
