MITECO reports: today the Spanish water reserve is 28,476 cubic hectometers

The Spanish water reserve It is at 50.8% of its total capacity. The reservoirs currently store 28,476 cubic hectometers (hm³) of water, increasing in the last week by 188 cubic hectometers (0.3% of the current total capacity of the reservoirs).

The reservation by areas according to the MITECO is the next:

  • Eastern Cantabrian is at 87.7%
  • Western Cantabrian at 81.2%
  • Miño-Sil at 82%
  • Galicia Coast at 88.5%
  • Internal basins of the Basque Country at 85.7%
  • Duero at 67.2%
  • Cut at 69.1%
  • Guadiana at 32.8%
  • Red, Odiel and Piedras at 70.7%
  • Guadalete-Barbate at 14.6%
  • Guadalquivir at 21.3%
  • Andalusian Mediterranean Basin at 18.3%
  • Safe at 18.1%
  • Júcar at 48%
  • Ebro at 64.4%
  • Internal basins of Catalonia at 15.8%

The rainfall has been very scarce on the Atlantic slope and practically none on the Mediterranean slope. The maximum occurred in Pontevedra with 19.8 mm (19.8 l/m²).

The situation of the basins, in cubic hectometers, is detailed in the attached table:

This information is also available in a more visual way in the new MITECO web application. In addition, every week the BD-Embalses_1988-2022.zip file is updated in this section, which includes a table with data on peninsular reservoirs with a capacity greater than 5 hm³ since 1988.