Last September 27th was World Rivers Day and in the Balearic Islands almost no one remembered it. Perhaps because we think that we do not have rivers here. But we do have them: they are our torrents, which the Hydrological Plan recognizes as water bodies in the river category. There are 70 of them, totaling about 550 kilometers. We only talk about them when a flash flood arrives and the water reminds us of where it used to pass before we built over it. Once the storm has passed, they return to oblivion.