Heavy March rains end yearslong Spanish drought

Spaniards are celebrating one of the wettest months on record: 22 days of rainfall in March. After three years of virtually no precipitation, reservoirs were running dry. Now, they’re topping up quickly, bringing relief to government officials trying to control water use, and to farmers who depend on the rain for their crops. The World’s Gerry Hadden reports from Barcelona.

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