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So Barcelona has developed a daring plan: to build a pipeline through southern France and the Pyrenees to carry water from the Rhone River to Spain. The 200-mile aqueduct could provide water for more than 4.5 million people, who would pay for the project with higher water bills. Although the plan is still far from approved, it is the first time a pipeline of this scale to carry water from one country to another is being seriously considered in Europe.
New York Times: Water Scarce, Barcelona Plans Big Pipe To Tap Rhone
The pipeline to Barcelona would tap about 1 percent of the Rhone's normal volume. The pipe, eight feet in diameter, would start above Montpellier, reach the Camargue delta, run along the French coast and pierce the rocks of the Pyrenees. The cost has been estimated at $1 billion, depending on whether the pipeline will also be used to provide water to French towns along the way, such as Beziers, Carcassonne and Narbonne, which occasionally have water problems. The report estimates that the construction cost can be earned back in 25 years.
Stop wasting so much water. Stop trying to make a desert green. If you want rain, move to Galicia keep to the Fen Causeway
Oh, getting rid of all the British, German and Dutch tourists and retirees and their golf courses would help, too. 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
If local authorities only allowed development that they know they have water for, none of this would be happening. 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
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:
They must have known about the Galiana Royal Creek... When locusts move on, they leave nothing behind
Most places in the world, if you get official planning permission, you have permission. A local office cannot give permission to build on land it has no control over...period. In Spain, you get official planning permission, except if somebody notices that it conflicts with other central government policies. Then you lose your home without compensation, despite it not being your fault. Which is just a teeny bit unjust.
In fact, some areas, you have a house legally built, then they change the law a couple of decades later and retrospectively want to demolish the house for failing a planning law that hadn't been passed at the time of building.
that's why the spanish property market has crashed. Nothing to do with sub-prime or anything like that. All foreign buyers have got too scared of the mess that is spanish "planning" law and it's killed the demand. keep to the Fen Causeway
Nothing to do with bribery. keep to the Fen Causeway
"I don't disagree with the principle of clearing the clutter along the coasts. But our home was built in 1971 - 17 years before this law came in and it is unjust that we are effectively losing it,"
Right, so we have people who were swindled when buying property and people who claim nobody reads the Official Journal. 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
Might need a few extra nuclear reactors, though.
you are the media you consume.
