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Spanish farmers protest ecological threshold for Tagus River

Farmers protest against a governmental order to provide ecological protection for a river that they see as a threat to their water resources for irrigating crops in Madrid, Spain, Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2023. Several hundred protestors rallied in front of Spain's ministry for the ecological transition. The ministry has set an "ecological threshold" for the Tagus River in hopes to keep it healthy under the forecast of a hotter and drier future caused by climate change. Banners reads in Spanish: "You are drowning us, and not with water". (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez) Farmers protest against a governmental order to provide ecological protection for a river that they see as a threat to the water resources they need to irrigate their crops, in Madrid, Spain, Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2023. Several hundred protestors rallied in front of Spain's ministry for the ecological transition. The ministry has set an "ecological threshold" for the Tagus River in hopes to keep it healthy under the forecast of a hotter and drier future caused by climate change. Banners read in Spanish: "No cutting back of the water transfer Tajo-Segura". (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez) Farmers protest against a governmental order to provide ecological protection for a river, that they see as a threat to the water resources they need to irrigate their crops in Madrid, Spain, Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2023. Several hundred protestors rallied in front of Spain's ministry for the ecological transition. The ministry has set an "ecological threshold" for the Tagus River in hopes to keep it healthy under the forecast of a hotter and drier future caused by climate change. Banners read in Spanish: "Less water rerouted, more unemployment". (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)