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Drought leads Spanish hotels to redesign water use

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Louise Osborne
May 8, 2024

In Catalonia, hotel owners are looking to nature-based water recycling and desalination as potential solutions to the problem of water shortages caused by ongoing drought.

Louise Osborne DW's Chief climate reporter provides expertise on the defining crisis of our time.
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