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FORTUNA, Spain: Lush fields of lettuce and hothouses of tomatoes line the roads. Verdant new developments of plush pastel vacation homes beckon buyers from Britain and Germany. Golf courses – 54 of them, all built in the past decade and most in the past three years – give way to the beach. At last, this hardscrabble corner of southeast Spain is thriving….
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/06/02/europe/dry.php
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by the Herald Tribune
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The potential future scenario of Murcia having 54 golf courses, a pool in many a back garden, and nothing coming out the taps?
The quote….
“Politicians think in four-year blocks, so its O.K. as long as it doesn’t run out on their watch,”
… sums up for me, the ‘forward-thinking’ evident in so much of what we see around us, in this part of Spain.
I despair 😕
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@iano wrote:
The potential future scenario of Murcia having 54 golf courses, a pool in many a back garden, and nothing coming out the taps?
The quote….
“Politicians think in four-year blocks, so its O.K. as long as it doesn’t run out on their watch,”
… sums up for me, the ‘forward-thinking’ evident in so much of what we see around us, in this part of Spain.
I despair 😕
The ecological effect is almost mirroring the financial collapse. It’s uncanny. Didn’t anyone see this coming when they built in a desert? I think the town planners are going to look rather silly.
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