Drought Threatens Crops, Wildlife Along Spain’s Guadalquivir River Delta.
Either crops die of salt poisoning — or the water is cut off and they die of drought.
But making a living without damaging the environment is getting harder on the Guadalquivir River delta.
Eighty percent of the region’s aquifer has dried up because of intensive agriculture and the drilling of illegal wells, the WWF says.
Local officials said they closed about 300 illegal wells last year.
Climate change is already driving up local temperatures, experts say.
Water shortages — from over-farming and from climate change — affect them, too.
But where we’ll see change is in these lagoons and wetlands right here."
Scientists predict rising temperatures will dry out this area.
For the rice farmer Manolo Cano, the seasons have already changed.