When I first arrived in Granada in 1987 there was a serious water shortage and the water was cut off every evening after 6pm.
Since then they have built lots of big reservoirs.
The biggest one is Rules which is on the road from Granada to the coast which has a capacity of 112 cubic hectometres.
A hectometres is 1 million cubic metres or a cube which is 100m x 100m x 100m.
I read that the RULES dam was the largest piece of concrete in Eurpoe at one time.
The last two winters 2009/2010 and 2010/2011 have been very wet so even though we have hardly had any rain since May the reservoirs are 73% full. The average in the last 10 years is 45%.
That is why nobody is worrying much about the lack of water right now.
The weather forecast for next week is all rain so that should fill them up again.
An excellent website with information about all the embalses (reservoirs) in Spain is this one.
http://www.embalses.net/
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Topic: How much water is there in the reservoirs around Granada? (Read 402 times)