We are six million (without water restrictions)

The six million people who live in the more than 200 municipalities that depend on the Ter and Llobregat reservoirs are no longer in a state of drought alert, but rather a pre-alert. It has rained so much that the restrictions have been lifted.

Few images have been as devastating as that of the exposed church of Sant Romà de Sau. The joke has lasted four and a half years, and at some point more than one person has thought that we would never see the reservoir full again (in fact, it's still far from full, as it's at 73%). And the collapsed spire of the reservoirs in TV3 weather It has been a symbolic informative element that, without words, has achieved a greater psychological sensitizing effect than one hundred government press conferences.

I hope this episode has marked us forever and that we don't take water for granted. This seems to be the case with domestic consumption, because people are generally responsible. Personally, I don't intend to put away the bucket from the sink or abandon the habit of using the shower water to flush the toilet, which are Captain Lettuce gestures but allow us to lend a hand. Will city councils do the same when they water the streets? Will they allocate resources and have the political will to seal leaking pipes? Will water from ornamental fountains be reused? Just as there are aid lines for solar panels, can we promote the use of rainwater for domestic irrigation? Because if this drought has served any purpose, it's to understand that more will come and that we can't waste a single drop of water because, even though desalination plants are a palliative, water still falls from the sky.