The Generalitat of Catalonia will modify the Sequera Special Plan to offer the necessary mechanisms that will protect the water supply of Barcelona and its metropolitan region in the event of an emergency situation. The measures to be applied, expected to begin in January 2024, could also affect professional sports, including teams from the League, the ACB or other competitions in the territory.
The Minister of Climate Action, David Mascort, has clarified the announcements that the Government communicated this Tuesday, after focusing media attention on the restriction of the use of water in the showers of sports facilities, if the emergency phase were entered. “I was wrong, I didn’t explain myself well,” the councilor admitted before the microphones of El Món to RAC1.
Mascort has explained what the equipment that decides to continue watering the football fields or filling the swimming pools will have to do if the emergency phase is entered. “What we say is not to go overboard and compensate by closing the showers. “Everything is to maintain their activities.” This measure will also be applied in professional sports.
“If they have to water the field on the day of the match, they will surely compensate with the showers at the sports city. I have no doubt that they will do it,” says Mascort. In this sense, he has assured that the situation that Catalonia is going through due to the lack of water is “very critical” and that “if it does not rain, what will come will be much more serious.” “The only solution is to save as much water as possible,” he has assured. sentenced.
Catalonia will be able to spend a maximum of 200 liters per inhabitant per day starting in January, if it does not rain enough. If the situation were to get worse, the figure could drop to 180 liters and 160. Likewise, new businesses that have a large use of water, such as hotels or other facilities, will not be able to open until Catalonia leaves the emergency phase.
The Generalitat signed an agreement last Sunday with Barça and Girona to fight precisely against the drought. Both clubs showed their “commitment” to reduce the effects of the lack of water, since they committed to “applying all saving measures to comply with the restrictions established by the Government decree.”
