Yes, but read the article you quoted yourself.
The problem is not “drought”: it’s overuse. We’ve turned Almería (which has been a desert since time immemorial) into a plastic sea of hothouses irrigated with water from wells and from nearby rivers; the wells are running out, so now the people from Almería whine that “Almería is becoming a desert” and cry that people from the North should let them take water from our rivers. Uh, no, and you guys have always lived in a desert! The overuse of water upriver has lead to drying the Tablas de Daimiel or the Coto de Doñana almost completely. Another big source of desertization is fires, most of which are caused by man (over 60% by official statistics) and way too often on purpose.
The current Spanish government is Socialist. Andalusia (to which Almería belongs) is a Socialist stronghold; the previous time they came into power it was by buying votes, both directly and through the creation of a special unemployment subsidy for temporary agricultural workers: everybody else must have worked at least 9 months to get a subsidy whereas aggies from Andalusia and Extremadura only need to work for… 30 days! The communities from which the Andalusians want to get the water are decidedly non-socialist, partly due to the harm caused to our farmers by the aforementioned subsidy. Many farmers up north would more gladly have as their son-in-law a Muslim subsaharian immigrant than an Andalusian.
Desertization, yes; but what we need to do is learn to use the water there is and stop trying to turn deserts into vegas. And of course, stop whining that our deserts are becoming deserts!