Amid drought, many Spanish aquifers are off-limits due to pig poop

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Nearly half of Spain’s hundreds of underground springs and wells are polluted with nitrates and other toxins, as slurry from industrial pig farms seeps beneath the soil. Those springs could have helped regions like Catalonia in the northeast make it through the current dry spell. But they’re off-limits, and will remain so for decades. Gerry Hadden reports from Barcelona.

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