Hydrologic Cycle

Diputación de Alicante

Hydrologic year 2016-2017

This is hydrologically a paradoxical year. Very intense precipitation and, at the same time, severe drought. How can it be?:
– A great part of the south of the province depends of, specially for agriculture, transfer of external water resources from basins which this year has had a low record precipitation.
– The area of ‘Alto’ and ‘Medio Vinalopó’, which aquifers suffer an estructural and continual overexploitation, have not had great precipitation like other areas in the province, and 2016-2017 it is being a medium year, after the last two particularly dry years.
On the picture it is shown the evolution of the water depth in a well in Pinoso during the last decade, which evidences the unsustainability of the current management model. However, in the area of ‘Marina Baja’, ‘Marina Alta’, ‘L’Alcoià’ and ‘El Comtat’, the overall state of the aquifers is better now than in 2016 on these dates.

 

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