Reuters: Seas Only Hope for World Water Supply, Says Spain
While I applaud their bold attempts, someone might want to fill in the city of Granada on the details of water conservation...
Almost every single morning, city maintenance workers are power-hosing down the sidewalks, even in the middle of January (when I was there last). It was the most peculiar thing to me, especially during the winter.
The smog and congestion (due to the ridiculously narrow streets) settles on the ground and there probably is a bit of litter from the massive amount of pedestrians walking all hours of the day. (You'd walk too, if you had to pay $1.80 per quart)
I cannot recall off hand the name of the custom (I think it was borracho, the term for "drunk"), but during the Summer, drinking in the streets is a common social scene...so I imagine there's a bit of vomit to clean up as well...
P.S. Anybody who can tell me which Cure song the title is from gets uh...8...cool points...yea.