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They cement golf course holes in Madrid to denounce the waste of water

Climate activists from the Rebellion or Extinction movement covered several holes with cement on the golf course of the Club de Campo Villa de Madrid, where the Spanish Open tournament kicks off this Thursday in Spain.

The action served to denounce the “waste of water” in the dry season.

Members of this social movement focused on the fight against the climate crisis mobilized at dawn this Thursday to sabotage three holes on the Madrid golf course, where they placed a banner that read “this hole swallowed 100,000 liters of water.”

With this initiative, the activists wanted to expose “the irresponsibility and cynicism of an elite that was not even able to take the initiative, in the hottest summer on record, according to the State Meteorological Agency, of giving up something like watering their golf courses”. “, they explained in statements to the Efe agency.

The protest follows in the footsteps of another group that in August filled the holes of several golf courses in France, also with cement, with the same objective.

“In Spain, 437 golf courses are irrigated every day,” say the activists, who stress that the figure “supposes a consumption of water greater than that of the populations of Madrid and Barcelona together, for leisure that only 0.6 % of population.”

The protest takes place in the context of the worst drought recorded in Europe in the last 500 years and that especially affected Spain, where some autonomous communities applied restrictions on the use of water this summer and where the water reserve, already at 31, 9% of its capacity, it continues to decrease.

The group, whose main demands include the democratization of decision-making on climate action through citizen assemblies, demanded a referendum “so that citizens can take control of the water and decide if they want to ban golf in Spain, to protect water reserves with minimal sacrifice.

Source: TSF

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