Climate activists have filled the holes on ten golf courses in Spain to protest the high water consumption. As the climate protection group Extinction Rebellion announced on Sunday, the nightly actions on golf courses in Barcelona, Madrid, Valencia, in the Basque Country, in the region of Navarra and on the island of Ibiza targeted “water wastage during one of the worst droughts Europe has ever experienced “.
“Golf has no place in a world without water,” explains Extinction Rebellion. Some activists filled the holes with cement, others planted seedlings.
“Just one hole on a golf course consumes more than 100,000 liters of water per day to preserve the surrounding greenery,” says Extinction Rebellion, citing figures from environmental organization Ecologists In Action. “In Spain, 437 golf courses are watered every day,” the climate protection group criticized. This means that golf courses use more water than the inhabitants of Madrid and Barcelona combined. However, only 0.6 percent of the population played golf.
According to experts, parts of Spain are drier than they have been in a thousand years. After the hottest and driest spring since weather records began, 60 percent of the country was on alert in early June, according to the European Drought Observatory, as there was a lack of rain and the summer’s first heat wave sent record temperatures of over 44 degrees Celsius. (sda/afp)
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