Water reserves in Menorca reached their lowest level ever recorded in August, at 33%, and aquifers such as the Roca are in an even worse state, at only 24% of their capacity. The restrictions imposed by town councils are still in force in six of the island's eight municipalities and, although towns like Es Mercadal have reduced consumption by 23% among large consumers, the solutions, including a second desalination plant, will take time to become effective.

Menorca is on track to break the historical record for air passenger arrivals this year. Up to August, it has already recorded 3,140,000, 2.5% more than last year, when it registered the highest influx to date, with 4,210,152 passengers. The airport then exceeded the 2018 number of users by 800,000, when Aena had the idea of launching a pioneering project in Menorca, together with Vigo, to control its air traffic virtually and remotely.

The calling of early elections catches the right wing at its best moment in Menorca, where, according to polls, it already exceeds 50% of the voting intention and the Popular Party is one step away from regaining an absolute majority in the Council, which it lost in the 2015 elections.

Not building a new control tower has serious consequences for the operability of Menorca airport. On July 21, for example, the radar that makes it function failed, and flight delays occurred that were solely attributable to the deficiencies of the facility, the oldest in Spain.

This Sunday will mark eight months since a large rock fell from the cliff at Cala Sant Esteve (Es Castell), crushing the villa below and landing right on top of a 65-year-old man while he was sleeping. His wife, Olga, was left seriously injured by his side and has still not been able to overcome her grief. In fact, neither she nor her daughter Carme have been able to return to the house. “Everything remains the same: the rock, the rubble, the damage… yet we continue to pay as if we still lived there,” complains the couple's daughter. This Friday, along with 13 other neighbors and in the presence of her mother, she appeared before the cameras and journalists to draw the attention of political leaders and demand that procedures and aid be accelerated so that everyone can return home.

Menorca is on track to break the record for visitor arrivals this year. The latest data from Aena counts more than 3.1 million passengers at the airport through August, 2.5% more than last year, when historic figures were reached. Meanwhile, the island's inhabitants are suffering from the housing emergency and have had to change their consumption habits. Because in Menorca, one can no longer live, by any means, like before.

It is easier to look for external enemies to make excuses than to engage in self-criticism. And even more so if, from the outside, they cause changes that may affect the business. This is the reaction that businessmen and merchants in Menorca have always had when the Administration's decisions have transformed the space or the conditions in which they have to work. The latest example we are experiencing this summer in Ciutadella, where the resistance of a group of 22 businessmen to accept the pedestrian zone of the city's main square, the Born, has led the court to have to force the City Council to turn back and allow the space recovered 14 months ago for the enjoyment of the citizenry to be filled with cars again.

Menorca will limit car entry from June 1, 2027. This is the common objective of the PP and the PSOE, who have hastily agreed to modify the Biosphere Reserve Law to make it possible. For various reasons, Més per Menorca and the renegade Vox councilor have voted against it.

The stubbornness of the councilor gonella Joan Pons Torres to declare menorquí and the salted article as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Menorca (BICIM), and thus protect it from the 'threat' of standard Catalan, is about to explode in his hands. The legal subterfuges he has sought in order to impose his initiative against the official linguistic and academic criteria of entities and institutions have backfired.

The moratorium that has been in effect since 2022 has resulted in the loss of over 2,800 tourist places in Menorca in the last four years, which this season offers 81,261 beds to visitors, below the 84,000 mark that had been surpassed just after the pandemic.

Menorca consumes 35% more water than provided for by the Hydrological Plan of the Balearic Islands. It is, by far, the island that presents the greatest imbalance between the current reality and the maximum supply flow for urban and residential uses that, in theory, it should support. The report from the Water Alliance, which compares extractions with the quotas established by the Hydrological Plan, makes this very clear. The situation has gotten out of control, much more so than in Mallorca (which only exceeds the forecast by 8.5%) and Ibiza (15.4%).

The Biosphere Reserve Law, which was supposed to compensate Menorca for the capital status recognized for Mallorca and Ibiza, will be modified again without having been practically applied in its first three years of validity. Reduced by the Urgent Measures Law of 2024 —first— and by the coastal law announced for this autumn —later—, now the Menorca Council itself will modify it.

The second week of August Menorca has welcomed a new large-format music festival, Ukalari Live. The managers of the theater of the same name in Ciutadella, Alberto Gómez and Miriam Torres, dare to program 10 days of concerts, from David Bustamante to The Tyets and the tribute This is Michael, in a venue set up at the Sporting Maonès football field which can hold 4,000 people. These days employ about thirty people and cause the indirect creation – they estimate – of 300 more jobs. A significant leap, but they say it is controlled, compared to what they are used to at the old Calós theater, now Ukalari, where in two years they have managed to regularly fill its 575 seats and have attracted nearly 25,000 spectators.

Joan Pons Torres, the gonella councilor of Culture, Education, Youth and Sport to the Council of Menorca from the PP who outside of politics promoted insular variants of Catalan against the standard, now driven by the Consell de Menorca, that Menorcan and the article 'salat' be declared an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Menorca (BICIM). He assures that “young people are already too influenced by central Catalan,” that “they say 'soc' and not, 'som'” and that attention must be paid to the statute, which defends the need to "promote our linguistic varieties". "Menorcan unites and identifies us and we cannot lose it," he adds.

Some 400 privileged individuals were able to watch the eclipse from the top of El Toro, Menorca's highest peak, where attendees responded with applause to the spectacular moment when day suddenly darkened, as the Moon covered the Sun, which was already beginning to set.

The sudden death of a horse in the middle of the square during the Fornells jaleo has reopened the debate on animal suffering in Menorca's festivals. The fatal heart attack suffered by the 22-year-old equine named Emperador, the constant complaints from animal rights groups, and the high temperatures recorded during the summer due to successive heatwaves have highlighted the need to take additional measures beyond those already in effect with the entry into force of the Animal Welfare Law.

Menorca will be the first place where the total solar eclipse of August 12 can be seen, starting at 8:30 PM. If nothing new happens, for 66 seconds, the Moon will cover the Sun and the sky will darken. None of us have ever seen it.

The Omnibus Law not only threatens Trenc. In Menorca, where citizen mobilization in defense of protected areas began in the 70s, there is also a natural site that could be altered by the prevailing political casuistry at Consolat de Mar, the old – aborted in time – Shangri-La urbanization, in the Albufera del Grau Natural Park.

Water reserves have never been so low in Menorca, only at 34% of capacity, and the pre-alert situation is beginning to alarm everyone. The Administration has arrived late to act and has not listened in time to specialists like engineer José Antonio Fayas, who had long warned that in the last decade practically nothing has been done to stop overexploiting aquifers, limit swimming pools, increase the cost of water, and reuse the regenerated water that comes out of treatment plants.

Water reserves have hit rock bottom as never before in Menorca. The island ended the month of June with water reserves at only 34% of its capacity, the same situation it already had in August of last year. In the records of the Ministry of the Sea, such a low level has not been remembered for at least the last 10 years.