Barriej

Went for a walk today up at the Guadalest Reservoir and its very, very low. This time last year it was almost up to the spillway and after the rains in March they were allowing water out (seemingly, if the level gets too high it can damage the wall)..

Picture that I took and one I pulled from the web showing it the other year..


Taken today 14/2/24

From the other year, taken from a webpage about the area.. NOt my image..

bfg69bug

There was a company in the news a couple days ago, they refilled 70! Pools on an urbanisation over night. They used 3.2 million litres of tap water doing it. I don't remember what the outcome was, but I hope it's a big fine, or they were forced to put all the water in the river or something ! Shocking attitude from these people

Barriej

Not allowed to fill pools from the tap round here. You can use irrigation water or get it delivered by tanker.
We have a warning on our water bill that states that anything more than a 20% deviation higher in the water use over the two month billing period will result in a visit and possible charges.
My bill this month (for the two months) states we have used 32% less water than this time last year.

NABman

I live on an urbanisation in Nerja and so far no water restrictions have been imposed, although I suspect it will not be long before they are. Although all properties have meters, the water from the supplier fills communal tanks and this is then pumped into the distribution network. The community office is billed but this seems to be based on metered supply to the two tanks not individual consumption. Due to the variety of property usage the only way to manage individual consumption would be to have a meter reader visit each property on a monthly or bi-monthly basis. As a matter of interest I measured our consumption over the course of a week without making extra effort to reduce consumption and found it was 176 litres a day per person so the rumoured 160 litres a day per person is achievable.

spainrico

My consumption is below a 100lts per day - I have turned my pressure down, dual flush toilets, and economical with shower, washing machine and dishwasher.

DLC

We manage 106L/person/day, the water bill also tells us that is also the average for our area.

rspltd

I hope that was a sarcastic comment.

Because it wont make a jot of difference. Tourists will be unaffected even though the hotels are the biggest wasters
I thought the biggest wasters of water were golf courses.

Fred James

Golf courses have to use recycled water, not drinking water.

Notdunroamin

My kitchen tap is the furthest from the hot water supply and runs a couple of lt of cold before the hot comes through from the gas heater, maybe another lt if drawing from my solar water heater panel. We probably do that 3 or 4 times a day

Still only consuming ~70lt per person per day though.