Tajo

"MINOSA is ordered to immediately suspend all activities that are being carried out in the area of the Tajo La Buffa project," the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment told the company in a document, which was seen by Reuters.

“At least during the pandemic, operations at the Tajo Patilla site...should be suspended until it can be shown to be safe.”

The most grandiose of the schemes to overcome the natural imbalance was the Tajo Segura Transfer.

Water is pumped to a height of 300 metres above the dammed Tajo in the mountains east of Madrid.

In Spain, weather agency Aemet is predicting temperatures of above 35C in large parts of the country, and above 40C in the centre - and 42C in the valleys of Ebro, Tajo, Guadiana and Guadalquivir.