Alcoutim Council has unanimously decided to ask the Government and the entities responsible for the Environment and water resources, to build a third dam in the.
Agriculture in the Algarve may face a “complicated” situation in the summer and tougher contingency measures may have to be adopted to maintain the crops,.
The Algarve municipalities have approved measures to combat drought in the region, including limiting irrigation in green spaces according to the Intermunicipal.
The drought situation that the country is experiencing will be “the new normal”, due to climate change and mistakes made in agriculture, a sector that.
The Algarve Regional Director of Agriculture has estimated that around seven million cubic metres of water is lost annually in the western Algarve alone.