Portugal has highlighted the role that Spanish dams have in the channel of the Tagus River, thus avoiding episodes such as those that happened in the country during the country during the country Floods of 2013as stressed by the president of the Portuguese Environment Agency (APA), José Carlos Pimenta.
In this sense, Despite the storms that have shaken the Iberian Peninsula in recent weeks, Thanks to the management “very coordinated, both with Spain and with the Portuguese dealers of the reservoirs, with civil protection (…) to minimize the effect of floods.”
While in 2013 “with very similar rainfall, flows were recorded very close to the ten thousand cubic meters per second in points of the Tagus”, on this occasion, “as a result of this combination of reservoir management, we reached a maximum of 2,800 cubic meters per second, in a very similar context.”
It should be noted that during this year the water reserves are increasing considerably, thus reducing the problem of drought in several regions affected by this problem. An example of these floods is the Tagus basin, where one of the greatest floods have been perceived, according to the data of the Ministry of Ecological Transition (MITECO), with about a thousand cubic hectometers above and More than 3,000 with respect to the average of the last ten years.
