This article is about Spain’s growing water crisis, focusing on how climate change, desertification, intensive irrigation, tourism-driven development, pollution, low water prices, ageing infrastructure and illegal wells have increased pressure on scarce water resources. It also explains how water management is divided across Spain’s federal-style system, with responsibilities shared between the central government, Autonomous Communities and municipalities, and shows how drought and scarcity have created political tensions over water transfers, river basin management and further decentralisation of authority.
Read it here: https://www.forumfed.org/libdocs/Federations/V8N1en-ES-Almendral.pdf