Tuesday, September 19, 2006


The water shortage

The water reserve experienced a new reduction in the last week, in spite of rains registered in the last days, an lost 223 cubical hectómetros (0.4 %) and locating itself in 39.1 % of its total capacity, according to the Ministry of Medio Ambiente. Now there are 20,826 cubical hectómetros of water in the dams, 7,007 less than the average of last the ten years. Rains fallen in this of this week have been little, according to these data, with an average of 33.2 liters by square meter in the peninsular total, detachhed in 24,1 liters of average in the Atlantic slope and 46.8 liters in the Mediterranean slope.

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