In the Castile-La Mancha region of south central Spain, Julio Escudero, a 74-year-old former fisherman, fondly recalls an area on the Guadiana River called Los Ojos the eyes Large underground springs bubbled up into the river, where Escudero and his community fished for carp and crayfish. "I would sit in my boat six or seven meters away and just watch the water coming up," Escudero says. "No it looks like the moon Los Ojos doesn't exist anymore: that stretch of the river dried up in 1984. Additionally, 46,000 acres of surrounding wetlands vital not only to the local people but also to countless species of plants and wildlife-have disappeared