Description
“Water for Lisbon – A Ticking Clock” aims to reveal the colossal risk posed by the construction of the new Lisbon Airport directly over the largest freshwater reserve in the Iberian Peninsula: the extensive Baixo Tagus-Sado aquifer system, which spans the Benavente–Alcochete region. This is not merely the construction of an airport that could eventually comprise four runways — it is the relocation of the entire airport hub to a fragile area of high environmental and heritage value, with strategic importance in terms of biodiversity, agroforestry use, and freshwater reserves.
“Do Lisbon and the planned airport city have enough water to become the megapolis now being planned? What will be damaged or destroyed? Are there no viable alternatives? And what are the risks of undertaking such mega-projects? These are the questions this documentary seeks to explore: why Portugal is embarking on new financial and environmental projects that are unsustainable and ruinous.” — Daniel Deusdado, Farol de Ideias – writer and director of the documentary “Water for Lisbon – A Ticking Clock”
Project Team
Media outlet
Farol de Ideias
Matosinhos, Portugal
www.faroldeideias.com
Daniel Deusdado
Senior journalist
Portugal
Research organisation
Faculty of Science and Tecnology, Nova University
Almada, Portugal
www.fct.unl.pt/pt-pt
Joanaz de Melo
Director research
Portugal
