Residents of a small town in southern Spain gathered at the main square to collect drinking water as large swathes of the Iberian Peninsula braved unseasonally hot weather that have exacerbated a long drought.
According to the Andalusia regional government, around 80,000 people living in Alcaracejos and another 27 villages in the province of Cordoba rely on truck deliveries for drinking water, since drought has exhausted the nearby reservoir and the water from another dam has been deemed unsafe for consumption.
Although Spain's reservoirs are on average at 50% of their capacity, levels have fallen to approximately 25% in Andalusia and the northeastern region of Catalonia. "We are being supplied with water through a cistern. It's a rather uncomfortable situation and, above all, precarious for the times in which we live," Alcaracejos Mayor Jose Luis Cabrera said.
In neighbouring Portugal, temperatures have also been abnormally high, with at least 36 C expected on Thursday in the district of Evora - in line with Portugal's record for April set in 1945, or even beating that mark, weather agency IPMA said.
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