Portugal and Spain discuss measures to combat drought – Economy
Portugal and Spain discussed measures in the context of combating the drought that is ravaging the Iberian Peninsula. This Thursday, another plenary session of the Commission for the Application and Development of the Albufeira Convention (CADC) took place, focused on the rivers that are shared between the two countries.
Lénia Real, the President of the Portuguese-Spanish Interminial Commission on Limits and Hydrographic Basins of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Spanish Director of Teodoro Estrela General for Water of the Ministry of Ecological Transition discussed the topic via videoconference.
Taking into account the increase in extreme weather phenomena, the drought that the Iberian Peninsula faced was among the main topics of the session. Thus, and taking into account the provisions of the Convention on Reservoir Mechanisms, “it was programmed to intensify the operational instruments of articulation as a monitoring mechanism for bilateral monitoring, having established deadlines that were established for the articulation from short to monthly”.
The Albufeira Convention, signed in 1998, aims to strengthen the maintenance between countries for the protection and sustainable use of water from hydrographic basins that are shared between Portugal and Spain, such as the Minho, Lima, Douro, Tagus and Guadiana rivers. .
In addition, the working group on droughts and floods also saw the mandatory approved, specifies the press release, being operationalized immediately. The protocol for exchanging information on hydrometeorological data in real time was approved for the management of extreme situations in shared hydrographic basins. According to this note, this protocol should enter into force during the current hydrological year 2021/2022.