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In an order published in Diário da República, the Ministry
of Agriculture informs that based on “data recorded in the context of
agrometeorological and hydrological monitoring for the present hydrological
year, the drought situation in mainland Portugal, after a slight improvement in
March and April, has again shown a significant worsening in the months of May
and June 2022 with consequent negative impacts on agricultural activity”.
The evaluation, based on the PDSI - Palmer Drought Severity
Index, reveals that in May the intensity of drought worsened when compared to
previous months, with about 97.1% of the territory in the class of severe
drought and 1.4% in the extreme drought class, a situation that worsened in the
first half of June “with the entire continental territory in a situation of
severe or extreme drought”.
The cause of this worsening is related to the “accentuated
deficit of precipitation”, 408 millimetres lower than normal on June 15, and
also “the average value of the average air temperature being much higher than
the normal value” , data that coincide with the information collected by the
Portuguese Institute of the Sea and the Atmosphere (IPMA) and shared with
ECO/Capital Verde.
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Build more private pools???? That is what is happening in the Algarve - pools, pools, pools - just make them private.
By K from Other on 27 Jun 2022, 17:50
believe it to be true when you see the golf courses go brown
By John Martin Standish Hepton from UK on 27 Jun 2022, 19:03
Please stop watering unecessary places, roundabouts. gardens, swimming pools, golf courses!! Water for people and animals first please!!!
By Pam Bow from Algarve on 27 Jun 2022, 21:42
So, we keep hearing of more drought, so Portugal continues to build new homes for wealthy migrants as they are well outside the available funds of Portuguese nationals, continue to rip up rustic land to provide monocultures for crops that aren't needed, subsidised by the EU which also increases rain run off so less is absorbed into the ground, the sun also heats the bare soil which absorbs the heat. The land owners (mainly non- Portuguese individuals or companies also claims it increases employment but that is only for the men with diggers and those who provide infrastructure to the farms. How often do you actually see someone tending to these crops? Do we not already have fields of oranges from trees that have been watered on the ground where no-one wants to pick them?
Am I the only person that sees sense with the water situation?
By David Clark from UK on 28 Jun 2022, 09:41
I live in the middle of a 130Ha. illegal but thriving avocado plantation funded by a Spanish Company
It gets watered twice daily.
Water shortage ! What water shortage !
By Yitshak from Algarve on 28 Jun 2022, 15:40
I have been horrified seeing water sprinklers watering large lawns of a park in the midday sun. I don't need news reports to see that Portugal is in a real mess with this ongoing drought. I look to the wildlife and natural habitats in the area I am in, and all has not been well this year. Temporary pools that usually form in winter and spring never filled, or when they did they rapidly dried out, spring flowers finished early, and most of the non-evergreen vegetation in the countryside is brown and dead.
By Steve Andrews from Other on 03 Jul 2022, 09:19