Reservoirs increase by one percent

According to the latest weekly Hydrological Bulletin, the Spanish hydraulic reserve stands at 52.1% of its total capacity (56,039 hm³), compared to 50.6% the previous year and 60% of the average for the last decade.

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The reservoirs currently store 29,182 hm³ of water, increasing in the last week by 534 hm³ (1% of their current total capacity).

The average level of reserves on the Atlantic slope is 52.3%, where the situation in the Guadalete-Barbate basin stands out with 17% and the Guadalquivir, with 24.8%. In the basins of the Mediterranean slope, this level is 51.4%, where the internal basins of Catalonia have 15.1% and those of the Segura and the Andalusian Mediterranean are at 18.6% and 19.3%, respectively.

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