Catalonia: State of emergency declared as region faces worst ever drought | BBC News
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- Опубликовано: 13 фев 2024
- The Catalan government, in the north-east of Spain, has declared a state of emergency in response to a record-breaking drought.
This means the introduction of tough restrictions on the use of water across the region.
More than six million Catalans will be affected across 200 towns and cities, including the capital Barcelona.
The restrictions were announced after reservoirs fell to close to 16% of their capacity.
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This should be a lesson for all of us. Water is precious, conservative use is must.
We are lucky here in the UK to have so much, we do need to build a few more reservoirs though as we are getting some dry summers these days and our population has healthy growth. Not that our government really seems to be bothered about the future, its all power now with that lot.
Yeah... ev are wasting that precious water... 😊
@@peterpanini96It's easy to tell when there is a PR campaign against something when a "user" mentions the topic randomly. In this case we can see EVs are the current target.
and secession is pie in the sky
Good thing no other consumer good are horrendously wasteful of clean drinking water!@@peterpanini96
For anyone interested, and fact check me if I'm wrong:
Yes Barcelona, Catalonia are in severe drought. The majority of Spain is also in drought.
Barcelona already gets something like 1/3 of its water from desalination. It is home to Europe's largest reverse osmosis desalination plant. You fly over it as you fly into the airport.
The region is also investing billions to build more desalination plants.
Barcelona is now buying ships of water from Valencia, a nearby city. Obviously this is not ideal, but they are dealing with it in different ways.
Hopefully normal water levels can be restored with some good rain, and the luxuries that come with it.
Catalonia has been in drought since 2016. It's going to take more than some good rain. I suggest: stop building along that coast, limit tourist numbers, no more golf courses, massively reduce farm animals, grow crops that don't need so much water. That's a start.
"Hopefully normal water levels can be restored with some good rain"
yea. thats not coming
In the canary islands they built the first desalination plant in 1964 , when probably in Catalonia no ones knew about that word. We also have the first Ikea of "spain" in 1978 that year xD as a curiosity and to put you in perspective in 1996, almost 20 years later Ikea opened in Barcelona. Look, that part of the planet is not unique, you are facing something comun but at this time.
Yup wait for the real fun to start which is when the groundwater dries up in southern Spain... Which just happens to be producing about 35% of the EU fruit supply. It's a lot like having a lot of our eggs in one basket. eg the massive greenhouses in south Spain.
From what i could tell the locals there have been ignoring water rules/regulations for a few decades now with illegal drilling.
@slider799 That's so true. Desalination can't solve everything.
I am familiar with an area that is (was) prone to flooding in mid Spain. Over the past 3 years, we've seen the water table get lower and lower, and local farmers beginning to struggle...
Crops have to reduce 80% the use of water while industries only 25%. Makes no sense. It is necessary to water to make it rain. Cause and effect.
The South of Spain is said to be uninhabitable by 2050 because of the mismanagement of water. They have so many greenhouses that it can be seen from space. And this in a dryland area...
And there growing fruit should be grown in rain forrest aeras. Becuase use lots of water.
On the contrary. In South East Spain, even though it's very arid, we make the most of of the little water we have. Decades ago we imported techniques that had been very succesful in Israel (same kind of climate). The ones that never cared about how to manage their water resources, because they always had plenty of it, are the regional nationalist governments in Catalonia, and now it shows.
1. Those greenhouses in south-eastern Spain use underground fossile water (aquifer), independent of rainfall. 2. In Catalonia there have been a 3-years-long drought, where precipitation has been less than 50% average (ie 180L/m2/y instead of 400-500L). Combined with heat waves up to 45°C (Jul 2023), the water reservoirs just can't hold on.
All that in a densely unhabited territory with 8M! (and +20M anual visitors)
Not such a problem on the coast. You could always go over to desalination plants. Since energy should not be such a problem because of solar. Before the South of Spain is inhabitable the entire Arab peninsula will be uninhabitable long before.
@@lucius1976 Where are those arabs are going to go?
I hope this gets better for all those affected by this.
It's raining heavily in the UK. Let's build them a long sluice
Go back to Roman acuducts..
Not far from Catalonia, it's the same in most of the south of France: a particularly rainy winter.
It's incredible to see how the mountains (the Pyrenees) can cause so much climate divergence.
Chinese try that with dams system. Biggest engineering project in human history and it is providing 30% what they need south. You can argue it is a failure.
WHY IS THE CAMERA CONSTANTLY ZOOMING IN
industrial water use has risen dramatically in the last century.
and as "bulk" users such enterprises usually get a substantial break in the rates they pay.
According to the world resource institute humans are using 600% more water than they did 50 years ago. To mind mind that means we either need to use less water or build more storage infrastructure.
... might help to stop flushing toilets with drinking water 🤔
From the smell of some people in our local ASDA you wouldn’t think they use any water 🤢🤮😂🇬🇧♥️👍🌈
@Mondfischli just look at how much water was wasted from the drinking fountain in the video.
@@Mondfischli I know it doesn't account for the 600%, but we've gone from 4 billion to 8bn people people in 50 years. Overpopulation combined with a more resource intensive standard of living has combined to put us in this sh1t-show.
I don't think most people comprehend how fast humanity is progressing right now - in a bad way due to our sheer numbers and absolute greed.
I’ve lived south of Barcelona for 3 years now. I expected sunny summers of course, but not this kind of “winter” where it rains maybe on average just a few hours per week. I’ve barely used rain jackets or umbrellas in 3 years, pretty crazy and a worry for sure.
Spanish here. Here's the deal: you northern Europeans give us water and we give you free solar energy 😅
I hope the restrictions aren't too restricting and the rains come soon
We are on a water meter and collect rain water in 3 huge water tanks for watering plants and washing the car’s, also newly built houses in England have water meters maybe something like this could be implemented in Spain.
We have water meters in Spain. And some areas require new builds to have provision for water collection - but each Autonomous Community sets it's own rules so it isn't national. Water theft in rural areas isn't uncommon - you tap into your neighbour's water main (here they look like a large garden hose outside of towns and villages) and steal a few hundred litres at night. Also the illegal drilling of wells by farmers isn't uncommon at all.
Dream on, different culture
Sending my love to Catalonia, I hope it rains soon. 🇪🇸 🏴
Be Good if we could send Them some of Scotlands 😂👍
@@PhilMitchell1 I truly wish we could.
It will soon come to you
Thank you very much!
But please, don't use a Spanish flag when referring to Catalonia. That flag (actually, not the flag, but what it represents) is an offence for us.
@@mussaranyawe really have no other flag choice
if it was possible to transfer some of Norways snow to catalunia that would be great.
A few years ago Catalan nationalists opposed to a Spain's wide hydrologic system plan to share resources with the Southern regions of the country. Now karma is knocking at their door. Not gonna cry for them since they kept making fun of us Sourtherners back then.
Another lie from the Spanish who can’t bare the thought of a country without Catalonia. Don’t worry about Karma as what goes around comes around...it’s a matter of time.
Shouldn't a state of emergency be declared earlier? At 16%, it seems too late to turn that around.
This is Spain - politicians would need to offend their two largest constituents - tourism and agriculture. The Spanish political response to this sort of issue starts with (1) "there is no problem"; (2) On being confronted with the evidence that there is indeed a problem, they say they'll investigate; (3) When still pressed they pass a law but don't enforce it*; (4) When it's obvious it's a bloody disaster they pass (and enforce) draconian laws that would have been unnecessary had they simply dealt with the issue in a sensible manner in the first place.
*In Spain town halls and police tend not to crack down unless it's an issue that the mayor or police deeply care about - generally they don't do anything for violations unless someone makes a complaint (a denuncia) but as everyone in these small agricultural communities is related to each other nobody is likely to grass up their cousin. As many rural mayors are also farmers enforcing rules limiting agricultural consumption isn't going to be top of their list.
My grand father lived in the hills 50 kilometers North from Barcelona... Droughts were already common, most rivers were dry in the summer. They called the area "el seco"!
Population in Catalunya was 3 million in the 1940's when my mother was there, 6 millions in 2000, and now it's almost 8 million! On the other hand, neither water resources nor rain have augmented since then...
less water ,less gdp
To think Cape Town was in a similar situation not to long ago
Climate change is becoming a scary thing
Spain along with other EU nations have failed its obligations to manage its water supplies, conservation.
Rain might never come. We left it to late now you just go to move where the water flows and let the deserts grow where it doesnt
south africa had a similar drought. rain came back.
We have loads of water available in the UK from our record rainfall. We can ship some over. Cloud-seeding has messed up weather patterns
200 liters or 50 gallons per day? Are you a farmer?
It's always surprising but yeah that's pretty close to average water consumption (last time I looked at it, it was around 140 L/day). Just look at the manual of your washing machine, it can use upwards of 80 L/cycle. Add a shower each morning at 7-14 L/minute, a dishwasher and a few toilet visits and you get pretty close to that. It might well be that fountains and other public things are included in that limit too, and it would impact people with a pool or garden that they water the most.
We don't realise how much we use. Every time you flush the toilet, it's about 8 litres on average.
Here in Malaga we've had restrictions since September to the East of the City and some towns and villages turn off the water supply overnight and reduced pressure (my friend who lives in a 7th floor flat has problems with her supply due to pressure loss). A week or so ago the provincial government extended restrictions to the rest of the province and it's 160 litres per person per day here. An efficient toilet uses 3 or 6 litres per flush - an obvious way to limit use is to adopt the Australian mantra "if it's yellow let it mellow, if it's brown make it drown" (which is surprisingly difficult to do in practice as I habitually press the flush after a wee and have to consciously remind myself not to flush). And you can always "save water, shower with a friend". I set up a system a few years ago to collect rainwater from the roof into water tanks that I use for the garden - it's surprising how much you can collect. But evaporation from the pool is the biggest problem.
@@jadoei13 Nobody uses his washing machine every day, except domestic staff of very wealthy people or hotels, and maybe family mothers but in this case that's for 4 people, not 1, so 1/4 per day, ie 20 liters/day.
Otoh I know people who stay under the shower for 10 minutes...
i wonder how much of the water supply is going to crops..
california divert a lot of their water to farm almonds, a highly water intensive nut
Why not use the same technique as UAE called cloud seeding to bring the rain?
Shhhh ...you are not to mention the existence of geo engineering.
You will have the Carbonostra 🔫 after you.
Because it only works when the air is full of water but local conditions mean the water doesn’t form clouds. If their air contains no water cloud seeding doesn’t do anything. This is an area that normally does see enough rain when the air contains water, so if it’s not raining that’s because there’s no water in the air
Cloud seeding can also affect neighbouring regions since potential rain is taken away by doing this
Understood, thanks for explaining. Thought it was maybe overlooked but seems there are reasons for it.
The one bonus living in England it never rains it pours
Why don't we build a water pipeline from northern France to Catalonia?
Why specifically northern France?
@@user-zy8cy6hn6o So Spaniards can drink French lady's kinky delivered through the pipeline
Because it's been flooding after flooding after flooding since last November. I'm talking about the northern Pas-de-Calais region. People there are at their wit's end. Their houses are completely ruined and there is no end in sight. @@user-zy8cy6hn6o
Because it's been flood after flood after flood since last November, and it would be cheaper than building a pipeline under the Channel.@@user-zy8cy6hn6o
Why would you? They opposed to do that regarding to them sharing with Southern areas of Spain a few years ago. What they have now is called karma.
How about the golf courses?
Well, we have to start PLANNING NOW how we, and small businesses, can collect more water the way Australia does! Alternatively, we reduce the quality of water, or split it into drinking water and industrial.
I thought they just had a flood? I'm confused
Climate change causes both extremes, more droughts as well as more floods. Warmer air can store more moisture and release more at once. That's the problem, and why we should act
That was 6 months ago. Also most was around the coast not inland. So it doesn't full up the rivers, lakes etc.....
Gotta refill the lakes, rivers, ground water all the bits. Even with a flood in the right place you can still end up below average or well below expected over longer durations. Quite often you get floods when its very dry for a period of time because the water will just run off the surface since it's bones dry / rock hard has to actually sit on it for a period of time to sink in making quick floods useless for the long term.
This regulary happens here in Canada. We usually dont have any freshwater near most municiples
Not all of Canada.... we literally have the great lakes
@@dbm88 you mean the US? they control the great lakes
Most people take water for granted. Imagine having restricted access to water or even no running water, I'll be praying for Catalonia.
80% reduction in water use by crop farmers can't be the best policy, that's devastating.
Give the farmers all the water they want and people won't have water to live on. Climate change has become a Climate emergency with ever more extreme weather events globally.
The farmers aren't growing food to supply local needs they are supplying supermarkets in Northern Europe and the UK. The farmers are the biggest mis-users of water in Spain - where I live in the South when they investigated they found that 70% of wells dug by farmers in my area had no permit - they are quite happy to drain local aquifers if they can make a buck. And they cry like babies when they're caught. They're growing water intensive crops and wonder why they run out of water.
Unfortunately for the fsrmers the drought means no water. Not the government is making up the percentage.
Always there will be a drought somewhere, now it's their turn. We have a drought for a few years every decade, nothing special and just need to be prepared that the winter rains will fail. This year there are less rain in west Med and more rains in east Med.
Hi there! If you are looking where are all the rainy clouds ...it's here in Latvia. F* tired of it 😑
It really is about time the BBC started using subtitles instead of voiceovers , !!!!
Subtitles take longer. This is news, quick turnover.
@@emilydavison2053 Subtitles would not take longer than getting a paid voice actor , to read a script , usually with a corny accent , we can read you know !!!
Wish rain comes soon
I'm confused. This is old "news".
I from madrid give 20 yr more whitout water
That won't happen, under Madrid there's an enormous acuifer, that's why old Madrid didn't need a river
It was badland chugs
Another problem is that not long ago Catalonia had 7 milion people and now due two massive inmigration it has 8 milion. So much more water is used with even less resources.
Yawn!
The problem in Catalonia, apart from the lack of rain, something that obviously cannot be acted upon, is that for 15 years the government of the autonomous community has done absolutely nothing for the region other than try to become independent, now, 15 years later they have realised that the money they have thrown away on embassies, in "minister of foreign affairs" without any kind of legal competence and in all the waste of time and money that has been the pro-independence process, which after all was put in place to cover up the cases of corruption of the government of the autonomous community, the biggest demonstrated in all of Spain.
Perhaps its inhabitants should start to realise where their region is heading with this kind of attitude from their regional leaders.
Add to that the fact that years ago those regional governments strongly opposed to a nation-wide Spanish hydrologic plan that included them helping out Sourthern areas opf the country. So it's ridiculous that now they're DEMANDING help in that same regard. I call it karma.
Please WL tell us again about the great achievements of yet another COP hosted by oil producers
I am going to post a few solution for the next decades,
1. use the gas conductors from UK/Nord Europe to transport water AND at the same time move to less gas/fuel dependent (it is doing great now).
2. Other option is use huge boats full of water from Ireland/Uk where is raining a lot and sail, when I mean sail is using sails, the atlantic current goes south, then in the way back they can carry fruits, vegetables, etc... in this case the ship will need energy to come back.
3. What is already implemented, use desalinations plants (pumping water through big filters) using electricity (to supply the pumps) from renewable energies.
I am from the canary islands, we implemented the desalinations plants in 1980 or so, and I they water there was and is ALWAYS expensive, I remember teachers explaining us how to brush our teeth to save water, and I REMEMBER VERY CLEAR, they said, in mainland Spain they do not have this problem so the let the water run while they brush their teeth, so look them now. Every single spice in the planet understand how to use the water to survive, we humans do not understand in this century because come from the tap, but now that they people is aware we will solve it, but first, we need understand the big picture.
Now I live in Ireland we do not pay water and it is amazing the abundant of water. In the canaries, is not raining as use to.
Extract rainwater from here in Ireland? lol, do you think our government, industry farmers would just accept that when we also have gotten less rainfall in Summer? Climate change is having an impact here too and it is set to get worse. The crops we grow are dependent on lots of rainfall and so is our nature.
@@greenknitter I agree, and I will ask you, Does your country store the water somewhere?, I am talking about the excess, "Spain has 1,228 large concrete dams, which is more than any other European country". They are not good for the environment neither.. and that is why the Spanish government now is blowing up dumps..So.. I don't know.. do not build any let the water come back to the sea .. the same they are doing in Spain now..
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The world is effed !
Yeah i know they laugh at our horrible climate in Britain but having a drought really is taking the peas.
How much rain does it take to refill three years of drought in aquifers, lakes and rivers? Humans can adapt, for a bit, but if Western and Central Europe turns into a desert...what next?
Limiting to 200l a day?! Is that actually true? Doesn’t seem like a limitation to me.
It is an average of consumption of a municipality / nº of inhabitants.
Actually, this includes water not directly used by the inhabitants themselves: water leakage (some public water networks have a 40% of water lost), use of non-industrial and non-agricultural water (water used in offices, shops, car wash, etc)
Makes sense. Probably more investment in infrastructure would be good idea@@mussaranya
Why don't countries ever build underground reservoirs anymore? They do for oil 🤣
I guess you didn't pass/take geography at school?
Climate change
...may be part of it. The majority however is due to excessive use, bad maintenance of the pipes and illegal wells pumping for farmers.
Btw., there's a pound of Spanish strawberries on sale here at the supermarket 🥴
@@Mondfischliexactly, it is both. You do have excessive use, bad maintance and illegal pumps every year, yet only some years it becomes an existential threat for the people there. And unfortunately those years have become more frequent due to climate change. It is exposing all the problems you listed because the way we changed the climate is the reason we no longer have precious water to spare
No wonder Barcelona’s performance is shambolic this season.
If a developed country finds it hard to allocate water for its population then it is a wonder how a developing country let's say India will find its water use mis managed. Also it emphasises the universality of nature that is rains.
India has plenty of environmental problems of its own: droughts, floods. Huge mountains of rubbish that are releasing enormous amounts of methane into the atmosphere- accelerating global warming.
You do realise there is massive difference in the difference of yearly precipitation of India VS Catalonia right?
@@vice.nor.virtue You are quite right when you consider that the Monsoon season brings intense rains but the Summer season in India is also very dreadful lasting nearly 4 months of temperatures between 40 degrees or more and India is vast, the rain shadow area of western Ghats literary don't get any rains, those areas are worse than Catalonia because India 's population is far greater than Catalonia. Besides when I mentioned a " developed nation " I meant more "conscientious" than a developing country like India.
My grand father lived in the hills 50 kilometers North from Barcelona... Droughts were already common, most rivers were dry in the summer. They called the area "el seco"! it means dry, arid, parched, barren, i.e. rainless!
Population in Catalunya was 3 million in the 1940's when my mother was there, 6 millions in 2000, and now it's almost 8 million! On the other hand, neither water resources nor rain have augmented since then...
Worst drought up to now
Sure would be nice if Catalonia was like my town - no droughts!!
humans will come to terms with how their food is grown, soon.
Who can make sense of that. Farmers have to cut consumption by up to 80% , and industry 25%. It should be the other way round. We ALL know what comes next. Fruit that is made in a laboratory...thanks to negligent Governments.
Recycle water.
Those farmers need to just buy bottled water at the supermarket. Easy!
What happened a hundred years ago. Probably a climate thing or two
Build more reservoirs. Problem solved.
All open air reservoirs dry up because of high temperatures
@@hr6kl3jy0l so your logic is don't build more because they sometimes get dry 🤣🤣
@@Buttsy1 Where are you living Buttsy?
@@hr6kl3jy0l I don't give personal details but we have the same issues. Droughts when it's hot....which is then blamed on climate change, but no new reservoirs built since the 60s.
@@Buttsy1 There are plenty of totally empty reservoirs in South Eastern Spain.
bbc, tell coca cola and pepsi to leave spain
Those evil ranchers and farmers will never conserve. The only thing they care about is making huge amounts of money at the expense of everyone else and the environment.
Protesting against the weather 😂😂😂
you know whom I blame for the drought? MTV
I would like to know if Catalonia definitively separates from Spain, who is going to supply it with water in the event of a severe drought? 😮😮😮😮
The market. It's not hard.
@@JoeyRhubarb ahh okey
Is the drought impacting in anyway the Pyrenees? I'm planning a hiking trip there in late April. If anyone has an answer or details for the region it would be great. Good luck Spain!
Google is your friend
thanks bud@@joeds3775
@GABDILIVE: "yes yes farmers struggling, land drying up, fear for the future - but never mind that, what about my holiday?". This is why humanity is fucked.
There's huge difference between Atalantic and Mediterranean sides as well as between France and Spain.
Go hiking in France in Hautes Pyrenees. It's awesome there.
Climate change babyy
It goes without saying that this is indeed a crisis., but the restrictions on farmers seem disproportionate. For Catalonia, drought is just a convenient weapon with which the WEF can push their anti-farming agenda. Maybe, it's time for Catalonia to be independent of central governance and its EU over-reach !
Could blame it on Russia?
Rain will come, floods and landslides will be biblical .
Wow, its almost like the climate is changing!
Scientists have been warning humanity since the 1890s. You have no excuse.
buy bottled water😅
For the livestock to drink? For the crops? What are you, 10yo?
"Nothing is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity" Martin Luther King
It seems unusual to me that the BBC hasn't released a video about the racist Labour MP candidate in Rochdale.
Population was only 6 million in 2000, almost 8 millions now...
Rains and water resources didn't rise by 30%!!!
Keep cancelling your TV licence folks like millions have now done 👍
Israel has solved the water shortage problem by utilizing desalination…
And in South East Spain we've actually been using Israel's systems of water management for decades now (we have the same type of climate). The problem in Catalonia is that their local government, that has been doing nothing for decades except funding a separatist movement. They are slowly ruining what once was a prosperous region.
But the sea 🌊 is there unlimited amount of water within and the 🐋 is 🐟 lol
More lies,and people believe it!
Could the UK export water to Spain? We have built much longer oil pipelines!! 😮🇬🇧👍♥️🌈
And meanwhile, just north of Spain it's been raining for months, rivers and groundwater cannot absorb the water from rainfalls anymore, some regions are undergoing flood after flood, farmers cannot work their fields turned into mud ponds. A period of drought is a dream for us these days. If only we could exchange a bit of their weather against ours...
Im no scientist but is there a way to build a reservoir + tunnel system to send the excess water from the North to the South without rotting the crops in the North? 🤔
Let`s build a water pipelines in Europe, we from north europe could sell water trough them easily!
Build pipeline or similar to oil cargo ships. Get water from the United Kingdom and pipe it or ship it to parts of the world that lack water.
Fuck me it rains in uk all the time. Simple
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urus saja negaramu jangan suka menjelek jelekkan nama orang lain. coba ngaca sudah berapa banyak nyawa penduduk palestina yg di bunuh israel? mengapa kau diam saja dan terus mendukung mereka?
Spain Needs Rain Just Like California Did In 2016!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Worst ever drought since when?
Last year
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Oh dear, fredo, the lady told you. She said, "It's the worst drought for 100 years or more." There are none so deaf as those who will not hear.
@@gio-oz8gf Worst drought since when the climate was cooler?
Not since the climate was violet, but worst drought since the Industrial Revolution has started heating earth at a never before seen speed. Stop inventing bogus theories.
In india day by day fear of gujarat type communal clashes democracy in danger peoples are feared UNO intervention is necessary please protect the secularism in india
The weather is being manipulated and that should be obvious to anyone who is paying attention.
Regenerative forestry is the answer.
No in this instance unfortunately. Most of Catalonia that isn't towns or cities is covered in forest.
@@frankindustries356 I confused Catalonia, with andulasia region Thank's for the correction.
Breaking news, area close to Africa is hot and dry.
some day in the future you won't have to get to the Sahara desert to go there.
Global warming.
Thanks entitled tourists 😢
BUDDHA
Thus have I heard. On one occasion the Blessed One was living at Vesali in the grove outside the city to the west.
Now on that occasion Sunakkhatta, son of the Licchavis, had recently left this Dhamma and Discipline.[1] He was making this statement before the Vesali assembly: "The recluse Gotama does not have any superhuman states, any distinction in knowledge and vision worthy of the noble ones.[2] The recluse Gotama teaches a Dhamma (merely) hammered out by reasoning, following his own line of inquiry as it occurs to him, and when he teaches the Dhamma to anyone, it leads him when he practices it to the complete destruction of suffering."[3]
Then, when it was morning, the Venerable Sariputta dressed, and taking his bowl and outer robe, went into Vesali for alms. Then he heard Sunakkhatta, son of the Licchavis, making this statement before the Vesali assembly. When he had wandered for alms in Vesali and had returned from his almsround, after his meal he went to the Blessed One, and after paying homage to him, he sat down at one side and told the Blessed One what Sunakkhatta was saying.
The Blessed One said: "Sariputta, the misguided man Sunakkhatta is angry, and his words are spoken out of anger. Thinking to discredit the Tathagata, he actually praises him; [69] for it is a praise of the Tathagata to say of him: 'When he teaches the Dhamma to anyone, it leads him when he practices it to the complete destruction of suffering.'
"Sariputta, this misguided man Sunakkhatta will never infer of me according to Dhamma: 'That Blessed One is accomplished, fully enlightened, perfect in true knowledge and conduct, sublime, knower of worlds, incomparable leader of persons to be tamed, teacher of gods and humans, enlightened, blessed.'[4]
"And he will never infer of me according to Dhamma: 'That Blessed One enjoys the various kinds of supernormal power: having been one, he becomes many; having been many, he becomes one; he appears and vanishes; he goes unhindered through a wall, through an enclosure, through a mountain, as though through space; he dives in and out of the earth as though it were water; he walks on water without sinking as though it were earth; seated cross-legged, he travels in space like a bird; with his hand he touches and strokes the moon and sun so powerful and mighty; he wields bodily mastery even as far as the Brahma-world.'
"And he will never infer of me according to Dhamma: 'With the divine ear element, which is purified and surpasses the human, that Blessed One hears both kinds of sounds, the heavenly and the human, those that are far as well as near.'
"And he will never infer of me according to Dhamma: 'That Blessed One encompasses with his own mind the minds of other beings, other persons. He understands a mind affected by lust as affected by lust and a mind unaffected by lust as unaffected by lust; he understands a mind affected by hate as affected by hate and a mind unaffected by hate as unaffected by hate; he understands a mind affected by delusion as affected by delusion and a mind unaffected by delusion as unaffected by delusion; he understands a contracted mind as contracted and a distracted mind as distracted; he understands an exalted mind as exalted and an unexalted mind as unexalted; he understands a surpassed mind as surpassed and an unsurpassed mind as unsurpassed; he understands a concentrated mind as concentrated and an unconcentrated mind as unconcentrated; he understands a liberated mind as liberated and an unliberated mind as unliberated.'
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...."Sariputta, there are these four kinds of generation. What are the four? Egg-born generation, womb-born generation, moisture-born generation and spontaneous generation.
"What is egg-born generation? There are these beings born by breaking out of the shell of an egg; this is called egg-born generation.
What is womb-born generation? There are these beings born by breaking out from the caul; this is called womb-born generation.
What is moisture-born generation? There are these beings born in a rotten fish, in a rotten corpse, in rotten dough, in a cesspit, or in a sewer; this is called moisture-born generation.
What is spontaneous generation? There are gods and denizens of hell and certain human beings and some beings in the lower worlds; this is called spontaneous generation.
These are the four kinds of generation.
"Sariputta, when I know and see thus, should anyone say of me : 'The recluse Gotama does not have any superhuman states, any distinction in knowledge and vision worthy of the noble ones. The recluse Gotama teaches a Dhamma (merely) hammered out by reasoning, following his own line of inquiry as it occurs to him' - unless he abandons that assertion and that state of mind and relinquishes that view, then as (surely as if he had been) carried off and put there he will wind up in hell. Just as a bhikkhu possessed of virtue, concentration and wisdom would here and now enjoy final knowledge, so it will happen in this case, I say, that unless he abandons that assertion and that state of mind and relinquishes that view, then as (surely as if he had been) carried off and put there he will wind up in hell.
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( "Maha-sihanada Sutta: The Great Discourse on the Lion's Roar" (MN 12), translated from the Pali by Ñanamoli Thera & Bhikkhu Bodhi. Access to Insight (BCBS Edition), 30 November 2013, www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.012.ntbb.html . )
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Isaiah 19:5
King James Version
5 And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.
I hope the restrictions aren't too restricting and the rains come soon
I too hope that the restrictions aren't too restricting. I also hope that the water gets more watery so that people can go back to peopleing.
If a developed country finds it hard to allocate water for its population then it is a wonder how a developing country let's say India will find its water use mis managed. Also it emphasises the universality of nature that is rains.