The 1,000 kilometre long Tagus river, which starts in northern Spain and flows through Madrid and onwards through Portugal until it reaches the sea at Lisbon, is drying up due to drought, water diversion at source and Madrid’s thirsty population.

The water from the Tagus (Portuguese: Rio Tejo, Spanish: Río Tajo) is used to supply Madrid’s six million residents, supply agriculture through a diversion at source, and to cool nuclear reactors such as at Almaraz near the Portuguese border and the José Cabrera nuclear plant in Almonacid de Zorita.

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