07 junho 2005

ECOPOL

Já começou a guerra da água (curioso é que Portugal peça dinheiro mas não a água...): Spain and Portugal in water fight: Portugal has accused Spain of stealing its water as the two Iberian countries battle a drought that has seriously reduced levels in rivers flowing across their border.
Portugal has demanded ?6m (£4m) in compensation from Spain after levels of water in the Douro river have fallen below limits established in a bilateral agreement. The source of many of Portugal's big rivers start in Spain. [...]
Spanish officials have admitted that they have probably broken the 1998 agreement intended to stop bickering over water.
"It is probable that we will have to pay," Jaime Palop, Spain's director general of water, admitted to El País newspaper yesterday.