Guadiana

Bridgeland attorney Ernest Guadiana said his client’s use of the property is valid because its lease is with the U.S.

Within days of his release from the centre he began heading back to Doñana, swimming across the Guadiana river to reach Spain.

Carter rejected the proposal by Bridgeland attorney Ernest Guadiana to swap an acre and a half of its property and increase royalties from 2.5% to up to 5.5% based on the price of oil.

“Do I hear 51%,” he repeatedly asked Guadiana, who said that figure would put the operation out of business.

While some of the images this summer — graphic hunger stones being discovered in Germany, a 450-kilogram World War II bomb being removed from a riverbed in Italy and sheep taking shelter underneath a medieval bridge on the dried bed of the Guadiana River in Spain — are eye catching, Europe last saw a significant drought not that long ago, in 2018.