The authorities in Barcelona have been forced to bring in water by ship to offset the driest spring in sixty years.
A ship carrying water from nearby Tarragona arrived in the Spanish port shortly before 9am local time today.
A second vessel from Marseilles, France, is scheduled to arrive on Thursday.
The regional government of Catalonia has said that ten shiploads would arrive every two months, half from Marseilles, the rest from Tarragona and Almeria, in southern Spain.
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