The water crisis affecting the Panama Canal, with reduction in the number of ships passing through it, accelerating the programs of the authority that governs the waterway to ensure the water level in the canal necessary to allow the transit of vessels with a high draught and size, in particular through the construction of new basins that can contribute to raising the water level in different sections of the canal during the dry seasons that Now, with climate change, they last for almost all of their lives. of the year.

But it's not just arteries that are paying the price of the climate crisis maritime and river waters. The impact of water scarcity is striking, including the others, ports such as Barcelona, which is to reduce the water consumption due to the water emergency that has been weighing on us for some time over the city and the entire Catalan region. La Generalitat de Catalunya has announced that last year was the second year, after 2022, the hottest and driest in Catalonia since when data is available.

To reduce water consumption in port, the Authority Port of Barcelona is promoting an agreement with the companies cruise ships so that cruise ships arriving at the in the Catalan port avoid refuelling water in the emergencies due to drought and declared by the Government of the Generalitat de Catalunya, or the only if there are no other alternatives and if the of extreme necessity. The port authority specified that Cruise ships account for only 0.09% of water consumption of the city of Barcelona as most of the ships is self-sufficient.

The Port Authority has announced that, therefore, without prejudice to the indications of the Government of the Autonomous Community Catalan port, the port will only provide water to ships that will demonstrate that they have no supply alternatives Practicable.

"Aware that ships have sources of supply alternatives in other ports on their routes - explained the President of the Port Authority, Lluís Salvadó - from the port of Barcelona we decided to appeal to the cruise lines to ensure that avoid replenishing water at the port as much as possible, Bearing in mind, however, that the supply of water to ships is one of the commercial services covered by Chapter V (Commercial services) of Title VI (Provision of services) of the Consolidated Law ports and merchant shipping, and that this law stipulates that ports are required to supply water to all ships who request it'.