Despite past rains, 2022 is already the second year with the emptiest reservoirs since 1990

The water reserve is currently at 31.4 percent of its total capacity It is 20.05 percent less than on the same dates last year And 36.13 percent below the average volume of the last decade The rains of this week have not helped much. The reservoirs continue to be low, too much. The water reserve is currently at 31.4 percent of its total capacity, according to data from the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge. In fact, although rainfall considerably affected the Atlantic slope (with a maximum of 55, 4 liters per square meter in Lugo), much less water fell than needed on the Mediterranean side. Despite this, Spanish reservoirs have lost 148 cubic hectometres this week, 0.3 percent of their total capacity, currently 17,599 cubic hectometers of water are stored. The data shows that at this time the reservoirs are 36.13 percent below the average volume of the last decade and 20.05 percent less than on the same dates last year. To find a lower figure for reservoir water in this same week of the year, number 42, you have to go back to 1995, when the reserve was at 25.52 percent of its capacity. Except for that year, the reservoirs have never stored less water since records began, making 2022 the second year with the lowest water reserve since 1990. The water reserve Most of the reserves are well below their capacity .Specifically, Miño-Sil is at 41.5 percent; Galicia Coast, to 47.7 percent; Duero, at 29.6 percent; Tagus, at 35.3 percent; Guadiana, 23.2 percent; Guadalete-Barbate, at 22.4 percent; Guadalquivir, at 18.8 percent; the Andalusian Mediterranean basin at 36.8 percent; Safe, at 33.8 percent; Ebro, at 34.6 percent and the internal basins of Catalonia, at 37.1 percent. A little better, and by areas is 67.1 percent of the Eastern Cantabrian Sea; 55.7 percent in Western Cantabrian; 71.4 percent, the internal basins of the Basque Country; Tinto, Odiel and Piedras, at 64.2 percent and Júcar, at 52.5 percent.