An ancient Moorish invention could protect Spain from a future of severe droughts. The irrigation channels run through 15,000 ... knowledge of the acequias system dwindled. Only a handful of people in ...

A pre-Columbian society in the Amazon developed a sophisticated agricultural engineering system that allowed ... at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, (Spain); the Universities of Exeter ...

BARCELONA, SpainBARCELONA, Spain — Barcelona and its surrounding ... The regional emergency declaration would reduce water for crop irrigation by 80%, for herd animals by 50% and by 25% for ...

Now, the intricate system, seen as a low-cost and ... It is not collected for irrigation, it is “harvested.” When Spain replaced many acequias with the more modern water management systems ...

The Ter-Llobregat river system provides the main water supply for Barcelona, Girona and other smaller towns and villages. Spain’s government said Tuesday that its reservoirs, along with others in ...

Spain's transport minister ... Around 50 flights due to take off from Barcelona's partially-flooded El Prat airport were cancelled or severely delayed, while 17 due to land were diverted, airport ...

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — The European Union has warned Spain that it won’t tolerate renewed plans by regional politicians in the country’s south to expand irrigation near the prized Doñana ...