SOME OF THEM HAD NOT DRIED OR IN WORST SUMMERS.

We are immersed in climate change, No one doubts that already. But Canarias avanza, each more and more, desertification is no one escapes. Groundwater levels decrease more than alarming, poor rains contributing to this.

The municipality of the village in the middle of the last twentieth century had more than one hundred of sources, headwaters and springs. Many of them gave their name to the place, as evidenced by place names which designate its location.

We could highlight, among others, the source of the grinder, the headwaters of the Huesas, the source of the Nameritas, of the Garabateras, the spout of the Puntón, the source of the pipe, of the Solapon, the de La Hoya, the source of the peak, of the Gambuesa, of the Blanquizal, the daffodils, Mouse tail, the spine, the Arrastradero and could continue to exceed the hundred or so names.

Emilio Navarro takes a lifetime dedicated, personal and work, to retrieve the sources and streams abandoned, where the weeds and lack of management by the competent administrations, they have finished to the last drop.

The envelope exploitation of aquifers has been, According to Navarro, one of the main causes the decline and reduction of flow from the sources. However, Emilio years it has been observed a behavior different from the springs.

Although these were not well even if it was a drop, the trend is towards the total disappearance. In this situation are the source of La Pileta Los Pajaritos mountain. “Never let any moisture in the headwaters, but that's no longer” indicates Emilio.

The same fate have been the white platform, the Laurelillo, Carreño, the cistern, Las Cañadas, Hoya of the Sage and the Cornical. All have given the last drop. When asked if his recovery is possible, Emilio responds bluntly: “the problem is that you removed more than what comes”.

Also add the envelope to this grazing, fires, but above all, Emilio highlights, neglect and zero recovery than a day gave food to thousands of people. “This is a circle: If there are no trees they do not retain the clouds and rain, What happens to the phreatic layer and allows you to appear through sources, that life and it can again close the circle. That is sustainable”, Adds Navarro.

Emilio not only mourns the loss of these sources, which is impacting on the lack of life: less flora and fauna, but the abandonment of what has been an important hydraulic heritage which contains channels carved in stone, on crags, natural pools and a long etcetera.

Although the water is missing in the houses when the faucet is opened, Emilio recognises that this situation is us becoming against. Come a time where we don't have fossil fuels to desalinate the water and nor will anything in the basement.

The truth is that, a and otherwise, the legacy we are leaving to future generations would not be want to on our worst enemy. We can only ask: What we do with our children and grandchildren?…