Around Christmas, the 800 inhabitants of the small town of Borrassà, near Figueres, received an alert from the City Council that forced them to change their habits completely from one day to the next: the tap water was no longer drinkable. They could no longer fill a glass at the sink at home to quench their thirst or use running water to cook. Two months later, the situation remains the same and the residents of this municipality in the high Empordà region have had to get used to regularly travelling by car to the supermarkets in Figueres to accumulate loads of jugs of bottled water to supply themselves.