Joan Torrent, 64, walks toward his house carrying two plastic jugs of water refilled at a natural spring in Gualba, about 50 km, (31 miles) northwest of Barcelona, Spain, Wednesday, Jan 31, 2024. Joan trudges almost every day into the woods in search of drinking water. Spain's northeast Catalonia is preparing to declare a drought emergency for the area of some six million people including the city of Barcelona. But thousands of people who live in villages and towns in the Catalan countryside have already been in full-blown crisis mode for several months. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)