The Minister of Climate Action of the Generalitat, David Mascort, clarified this Saturday that private swimming pools of individuals cannot be enabled as climate shelters this summer.
“Private private homes are not possible, for sure,” Mascort said in statements to RAC1 about the Government’s decree to open public and private swimming pools considered as climate refuges to the public.
Mascort has explained that some town councils that do not have a municipal swimming pool and that use swimming pools in neighborhood houses or sports centers have requested that these private facilities be incorporated into the decree.
He has also considered that he would be “very surprised” if a city council declared a private pool in a hotel as a climate refuge.
Likewise, he has ruled out changing the decree and has warned that whoever wants to “knock it down” will leave the town councils without being able to open swimming pools, just as he has defended that this decree has been agreed with the town councils and the Catalan Association of Municipalities and the Federation of Municipalities of Catalonia. “The parties will be responsible for their actions,” he added.
