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Meant to post an article a week or so ago on this topic: removal of dams. I'll try to find the graph/map to illustrate.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GbYeaqrX0AAL8ct?format=jpg&name=large

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The EU indirectly killed a lot of people in Valencia, Spain with the EU directive to demolish dams.

The report 'Dam Removal Progress 2021' tells us that Spain removed 108 dams and weirs in 2021 alone.

Criteria for eligibility for demolition are the location of the flood defense in a protected nature reserve, the total river length after 
removal of the construction and the current status of the diversity of species.

Now they are going to miss using Deaths to further push the EU green agenda that caused the catastrophic flood in the first place.
https://inspain.news/is-spain-removing-more-dams-than-any-other-country-in-a-drought-context

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GbYeaqrX0AAL8ct?format=jpg&name=large

Built by the Romans and now making headlines for preventing floods:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GbjFx4iXsAExWEM?format=jpg&name=large

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As floods kill hundreds in Spain, why locals believe the appalling devastation around Valencia was the result of the EU's eco-zealotry, 
which ripped out the historic dams that would have prevented the catastrophe.

Perched high up on a sturdy shelf in her large garden shed, Mari Fraille believed she was about to drown. The flood water was seeping at 
her toes.

A torrent had blasted through the front door and swept through her house, so she hurried to the shed and, using a stepladder, scrambled on 
to the shelf next to an old suitcase.

For 20 long minutes, she screamed for help but no one came. 'It was the worst part of my life,' the 67-year-old told me this week. 'I was 
alone, everyone else along my row of houses had already fled from the flood.'

But those neighbors who had escaped stopped in a nearby field and conducted a head count. And when they realized Mari was missing, sent two 
young men to find her.

They climbed over her roof, dived into the water and somehow lifted her off the shelf to safety. 'I was fished out by them and my life 
didn't end,' she said in tears.

'My home where I have lived for 24 years has been destroyed by the storm.'

The floods have devastated Spain and are still doing so. Yesterday, the Catalan town of Cadaques, five hours' drive from Mari's home in 
Cheste, was submerged and 32 cars washed away.

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Earlier this week, parts of Barcelona airport were under water and flights halted.

But it is in eastern Spain that the worst damage has been inflicted. And specifically here in the town of Cheste, an isolated place in the 
Valencia region which suffered a phenomenal weather catastrophe 13 days ago.

A torrential storm hit the area without warning. More rain fell over eight hours than in the whole of the previous 20 months.

The stream that normally flows gently through the town along the Poyo ravine was transformed into a raging cascade.

At least 100,000 cars were damaged in the region, overturned and carried off by walls of water. Known deaths already stand at more than 
200, but many people are still missing.

Some were trapped inside their cars. Others tried to clamber on to the roof of their vehicle to escape drowning in the rising water and 
died in the attempt.

One man was seen climbing out of his car window and tying himself with his trouser belt to a tree. It is not known if he survived.

Six elderly residents of a care home died when they were trapped inside their ground floor rooms as the water entered. Two little boys were 
torn from their father's arms and swept out of the family's sitting room as the flood waters poured in through the front window. They are 
still missing.

Today Cheste, with a population of 8,000, is all but destroyed.

Outside homes there are 12-foot high piles of water-logged belongings - rotting clothes, backpacks, trainers, oven shelves, photo albums, 
armchairs, saucepans, cot mattresses, and the twisted carcasses of bicycles.

The flotsam and jetsam of people's lives.

'It looks like rubbish on a landfill dump, but they are all our family's precious memories,' said Mari as she surveyed the scene this week.

'Look, there's the guitar my son played as a teenager.' She points at the warped instrument with its strings broken, poking up from a 
sodden armchair.

No one from the Spanish rescue services was in evidence when we became the first journalists to enter Cheste this week after it was opened 
up again by police.

A 30-year-old concrete road bridge over the Poyo ravine, linking the town to the outside world, had been snapped in two by the storm water 
hitting it. Only small dirt roads now allow access to the town.

The communal brick swimming pool had disintegrated in the fearsome rain, leaving a gaping hole in the ground. The park's green grass and 
football pitch was buried under layers of glutinous mud.

'There has been no one come to help us from the authorities,' said Mari, standing with her son David, a 41-year-old builder, at the still-
wet porch of her house. 'We feel as if we have been abandoned.'

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Family of two brothers, five and three, swept away in Valencia floods say they feel 'destroyed' 
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Weather researchers have said the main cause of the intense rainfall was a 'gota fria', a 'natural' weather event that hits this part of 
Spain in autumn and winter as cold air descends on warmer waters over the Mediterranean.

Scientists told the BBC that rising global temperatures led to the clouds carrying more rain and that temperatures will keep going up 
unless governments reach net zero emission targets set by the EU.

'No doubt about it, these explosive downpours were intensified by climate change,' said Dr Friederike Otto from Imperial College London, 
who leads an international group of experts on this contentious subject.

Dr Jess Neumann, Reading University's associate professor of hydrology, added with the same conviction: 'The flash floods in Spain are 
another terrible reminder of the more chaotic weather we are experiencing as a result of climate change.

'Spanish locals have reported walls of water reaching up to nine feet high. The loss of life shows we are not prepared to deal with storms 
like these.'

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14060943/eu-dam-river-flow-spain-flood-cheste-valancia.html

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