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Coín has dumped enough polluted water to fill a reservoir, inquiry says

JUAN CANO / ÁLVARO FRÍAS

The investigation into the dumping of sewage and polluted water by town councils in Coín and Nerja continues to throw up some eye-watering data, showing just how much untreated waste is allowed to flow into the Guadalhorce basin or the ... polluted water to flow into its local rivers to fill the equivalent capacity of Malaga city's El Limonero reservoir. Junta boss: sewage gives shameful impression of Costa Eleven former and current local politicians and officials have been quizzed by

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Petition started against solar power farm in Guadalhorce valley

ANDREA JIMÉNEZ

...say surface water and soil could be affected or polluted. Ecologistas en Acción added that the scheme did not meet the needs of locals.

LifeStyle

13 November 2002: The biggest environmental disaster in Spain's history

Alekk M. Saanders

...about 210 kilometres from the Spanish coast. It is believed that over 50,000 tonnes of crude oil were released into the water. More than 1,300 kilometres of coastline, mainly in the region of Galicia, were polluted. As a consequence, the Galician

Education

The best primary stories

...grew everywhere. There was no food and only dirty, polluted water remained. Aeroplanes lay crashed into the water and cars lay rusty by the toppled buildings. There were just two people in the entire world trying to survive. They were tired and had

National

From Julen to Franco, a review of some of the year's news stories

Debbie Bartlett

Juan Carlos Maldonado of Ciudadanos (Cs) and eight other councillors from all parties. Nobody knew who was behind the alleged phone tapping. And from one type of 'dirt' to another: the investigation into the dumping of sewage and polluted water by ... wipes on the seabed near Nerja, and that Coín council had allowed enough polluted water to flow into its local rivers to fill the equivalent capacity of Malaga city's El Limonero reservoir. Councils are responsible for correctly managing sewage, but in

Local

Nerja seabed is covered with nine tonnes of used wet wipes

JUAN CANO / ÁLVARO FRÍAS

...investigators saw that new species were appearing and taking advantage of the polluted water. They reported back on a sort "crust" that forms over the residue from the pipe, hugging its opening, and a layer of waste 20 metres in diameter and, in some places,

Opinion

Heavy wine

A. J. LINN

...last 6,000 years, but it is only in 3% of that entire period that we have been able to drink it as a refined pleasure. For the previous 97% of those six millennia, wine was drunk not for pleasure, but because water was polluted. Wine, and beer in some

Travel

A Joshua Tree road trip

Andrew Forbes

...and families looking for a better-value, better quality of life compared with the congested and polluted LA area. In the middle of the last century, the Hollywood elite were among the first to make the desert fashionable, escaping the intensity of life