António Carvalho stressed that this phenomenon is a “consequence” of the lack of rain and water that affects the Algarve and Baixo Alentejo
Some places in Alentejo and Algarve are still in meteorological drought
Despite being considered fundamental to guarantee the water supply to the Algarve, the project will have significant impacts, especially on the landscape and the sea
Works will also control water losses in the city of Faro
Nuno Loureiro warned that, if this hydrological year is not "generous", next year, the water crisis "will explode with full force"
“What would this water be for? For irrigation but for what purposes? For greenhouses and export fruits?”
Federation of Farmers' Associations of Baixo Alentejo does not see this possibility «with good eyes»
Lecturer Dulce Freire has focused her research on rural and agricultural themes
The situation represents a public nature conservation policy “bound by wires”
Vice-president of APA says the priority is to execute projects foreseen in the PRR
Farmers complain about the lack of government support for the drought
Data provided by the meteorological station of the Manuel Teixeira Gomes School Group.
