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Spanish Water Crisis About to Become a War? | 35 comments (35 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

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There's an illegal town of 40 thousand people in the outskirts of Madrid.

Palestina a 20 minutos de Sol - Público.es		Palestine 20 minutes away from [Madrid's central square] Sol - Público.es
40.000 habitantes ilegales		40 thousand illegal inhabitants.
La Cañada Real Galiana es un camino de tierra de 15 kilómetros de longitud, hay más de 2.000 edificaciones y 40.000 habitantes, 15.000 menores. Muchas casas son chabolas, pero también hay chalets, algunos hasta con piscina. Todas son ilegales, aunque la mayoría paga el Impuesto de Bienes Inmuebles al Ayuntamiento que ha permitido la construcción de estas viviendas durante más de 40 años. Desde hace unos años una de las áreas del poblado se han convertido en un foco de venta de droga de España y el mayor de Madrid.		The Galiana Royal Creek is a dirt road 15 kilometres long, there are more than 2,000 buildings and 40 thousand people, 15 thousand of them minors. Many houses are shacks but there are also detached houses, some of them with a swimming pool. They are all illegal, though most of them pay the real estate tax to the local authority which has allowed the construction of these homes over more than 40 years. For the last few years one of the areas of the settlement has become a focal point for drug dealing in Spain, and the largest in Madrid.

It'd be nice if the battle were only against the right wingers, not half of the left on top of that — François in Paris

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Apr 1st, 2008 at 09:23:50 AM EST
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It so happens I'm reading the summary of the Attali report on how to get France back on the road to growth blah, and it has the predictable rundown of the wonderful things other European countries have been doing to dynamise etc and that France has of course miserably failed to do.

After saying the UK has undertaken long-term reform of its school and health systems (!) and boosted its financial industry (!!!), it says this about Spain:

L'Espagne a oeuvré pour l'accès de tous à la propriété du logement, dans une économie en quasi plein-emploi.

Spain has worked towards access for all to home ownership, in a quasi full-employment economy.

They must have known about the Galiana Royal Creek...

When locusts move on, they leave nothing behind

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Tue Apr 1st, 2008 at 09:36:09 AM EST
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