The environmental organization Amics de la Terra has publicly denounced the Sant Joan government and city council for allowing the owner of a luxury villa in Sant Llorenç to empty and refill the three swimming pools at his home, amid a drought alert.

According to the latest data, there are 75,000 swimming pools in the Balearic Islands. Seventy-five thousand. But that's not all, not even close. They include swimming pools, but also exotic springs and waterfalls, artificial rivers within. resorts that imitate distant paradises, although here paradise—the real one—is drying up.