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Murcia’s farmers fear for the future as Spain cuts water supplies from River Tagus
AFP via Euronews ^ | 03/05/2023 | Euronews Green with AFP (staff writers)

Posted on 05/05/2023 9:28:49 AM PDT by Salman

Spain’s government has decided to cut water brought from the Tagus River to irrigate crops in the bone-dry southeast of the country.

Spain is one of the EU’s biggest fruit and vegetable producers.

Almost half of the country’s exports are grown by farmers like Juan Francisco Abellaneda, co-founder of farming cooperative Delior.

His salads and watermelons fill the shelves of Europe’s supermarkets throughout the year. These crops are irrigated by water brought from the River Tagus, hundreds of kilometres to the north of Abellaneda’s 300 hectares of fields near Murcia.

But, as Spain faces the realities of climate change with three-quarters of the country at risk of desertification, the government has decided to limit the flow of water from the Tagus to the southeastern Levante.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: europe; globalism; globalwarming; globohomo
Another dispatch from the international "environmental" war on farmers. A "straight news" story but I detect a definite anti-farmer slant.
1 posted on 05/05/2023 9:28:49 AM PDT by Salman
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To: Salman

Food is bad, Mm’kay?


2 posted on 05/05/2023 9:34:15 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████. FJB.)
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To: Salman

Europe will have famines again in a decade.


3 posted on 05/05/2023 9:44:45 AM PDT by blam
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To: Salman

Leftists being unfruitful and dividing.


4 posted on 05/05/2023 9:55:48 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: blam

Safe nuclear power / desalination plants are the obvious solution.


5 posted on 05/05/2023 10:16:29 AM PDT by hoosierham (Freedom isnt free)
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To: Salman

Definitely. This is part and parcel of the Dutch seizure of privately owned farms and the forbidding of farmers to return to farming, Bill Gates buying up all our US farmland, etc.

Spain is very leftwing.


6 posted on 05/05/2023 10:32:33 AM PDT by livius
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To: Salman

Two European food exporters Netherlands and Spain have been forced by eu to shut down production. Starving g millions and starting wars.

I wonder why?


7 posted on 05/05/2023 10:57:32 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Genocide is here. Leftist extremists are spearhheading the Genocide against conservatives. )
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To: Salman

“But, as Spain faces the realities of climate change..”

Translation: Die Faster!!!


8 posted on 05/05/2023 11:20:14 AM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: Salman

Let’s see, no meat, no vegetables, no farm crops...

Wow, what a great plan.


9 posted on 05/05/2023 3:25:28 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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