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Debbie Bartlett
...wipes on the seabed near Nerja, and that Coín council had allowed enough polluted water to flow into its local rivers to fill the equivalent capacity of Malaga city's El Limonero reservoir. Councils are responsible for correctly managing sewage, but in
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NIEVES CASTRO / IGNACIO LILLO
The wet weather front that rolled over the province before Christmas has increased the reserves in the La Concepción reservoir to 24.4 cubic hectometres, meaning that it is now at 40 per cent capacity according to Red Hidrosur of the Environmental ... Department. The reservoir serves 11 municipal areas on the western Costa del Sol, from Torremolinos to Manilva. This increase in water caused by the storm front Elsa has removed the threat of drought for the time being and especially as the reservoir is
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Agustín peláez
Despite last week's heavy rainfall, which provided some relief for farmers and growers in the Axarquía, La Viñuela reservoir's water levels are largely unchanged and remain at less than 30 per cent of its full capacity. Checks at Malaga province's ... largest reservoir reported a minor increase from 49.06 cubic hectometres on Thursday 21 November to 49.24 on Tuesday 26 November.
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AGUSTÍN PELÁEZ
The Axarquía's agricultural community was told in a communication from Andalucía's regional government, the Junta de Andalucía, on Monday, of a 25 per cent cut in their water supply from La Viñuela reservoir as of November. The restriction is due ... to a severe lack of rainfall in the previous hydraulic year, leaving the reservoir at just 51.5 cubic hectometres; less than a third of its 165.4 cubic hectometre capacity. In real terms this means a cut from 4,000 to 3,000 cubic metres per hectare
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FRANCISCO JIMÉNEZ
With La Concepción reservoir near Marbella currently at 39 per cent capacity, the scarce supply of drinking water for the Costa del Sol has been brought into sharp focus once again after a particularly dry summer. The Junta de Andalucía regional ... water supply of half a million people (and significantly more during summer), will be drawn up as a "priority". Despite the heavy rain of two weekends ago, levels at the small-scale reservoir which serves the western Costa del Sol are currently at 24.3
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AGUSTÍN PELÁEZ
Despite last weekend's rainfall, according to data from the Junta de Andalucía's automatic hydraulic information system (Hidrosur), La Viñuela reservoir will finish this water year (October to September) on the verge of drought. It is five cubic ... reservoir is on alert. Before summer the level was at 69.9 cubic hectometres, compared with 72.39 for the same time last year. Water is destined for agriculture and human consumption. However, farmers have seen restrictions on the amount of water they are ... authorised to use in a year and some saw their supplies being limited due to using more than their permitted limits. Farmers have said that they don't understand why there isn't more water in the reservoir as a result of the rainfall. However, a number of
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MIGUEL ÁNGEL MARCOS
A stone circle dating back thousands of years, which recently emerged from the depths of a drought-hit reservoir, has helped to put two villages in the region of Extremadura on the map. Over the last few weeks, Peraleda de la Mata and El Gordo in ... millennium B.C. is now known, has become the tourist attraction of the late summer. The dolmen's climb to fame follows its unexpected appearance in August, when the reservoir almost completely dried up. The group of stones had been submerged there since ... meantime, the site continues to attract tourists, showing the enormous potential of the Guadalperal dolmen for the region. This adds weight to the argument for removing the stones from the bed of the reservoir. One association, Raíces de Peraleda, is
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Nieves Castro
Marbella, is working harder than ever, with six production lines. The aim of the plant is to guarantee the supply of water to the 11 towns in the region, bearing in mind the water shortage in the La Concepción reservoir, where levels are currently at less
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Jennie Rhodes
...exhibition at the Pantano restaurant at the Viñuela reservoir, and she has many more plans for the future. The mayor also touches on the problem of depopulation of rural areas of Spain and says that foreigners moving to villages like La Viñuela is positive.
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FERNANDO TORRES
...to the area from Iznájar reservoir in nearby Cordoba province.
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JENNIE RHODES
Los Romanes resident Angie Huzzey is exhibiting her fascinating collection of dolls' houses at El Pantano restaurant by La Viñuela reservoir until the end of August. The collection of 12 houses, which Angie explains, she has made from scratch, will ... Los Romanes, 'The Shack', which she gave to Paco, the owner. "He was really surprised and got quite emotional when I gave it to him," Angie reveals. The exhibition runs until 31 August at El Pantano restaurant at La Viñuela reservoir, on the A-356. The houses
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IGNACIO LILLO / JUAN SOTO
...future Guadalmedina station, in a way that echoes the metro's preservation of a water reservoir in Granada. Questioned by SUR, Mayor of Malaga, Francisco de la Torre, was unwilling to pass judgement; he recognised that it should be the regional Culture
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SUR IN ENGLISH
...skiing, with the difference from the traditional sport being an electric cable that pulls the skier’s rope as opposed to a motorboat. The watersports centre on Las Medranas reservoir in Marbella is the only centre to offer cable ski lessons to those keen
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Nieves Castro
...remains as expected, water will have to be diverted from Malaga from October onwards. La Concepción reservoir, which supplies Mijas, Torremolinos, Benalmádena, Fuengirola, Marbella, Estepona, Benahavís, Istán, Ojén, Casares and Manilva, is currently at ... 94.8% full and contained nearly 59 cubic hectometres, 16 more than now. Since then it has rained very little. Since the start of the hydrological year the reservoir has collected 426 litres per square metre, compared with 603 in the same period last ... year. The Marbella treatment plant has collected 322 litres per square metre, compared with 533. The main problem with La Concepción is that it is a small reservoir and since May it has been in a situation of pre-alert. According to the latest reports,
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ANTONIO M. ROMERO
...initial work in linking the larger La Viñuela reservoir in the east of the province with the smaller La Concepción reservoir near Marbella. But there is no separate budget line for a new Malaga hospital nor for expanding the PTA technology park, although
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SUR / AGENCIES
The Junta de Andalucía regional government has ordered the prohibition of recreational use of La Concepción reservoir in Istán, near Marbella, after the discovery of algae which has been linked to the death of a dog. Though a ministerial order ... preventing personal use is already in place (as it is a reservoir for the sole purpose of drinking water), the Junta wanted to reiterate the message after a woman, whose dog died, took a sample of the water to a laboratory for testing. There it was found that
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JUAN CANO / ÁLVARO FRÍAS
...polluted water to flow into its local rivers to fill the equivalent capacity of Malaga city's El Limonero reservoir. Junta boss: sewage gives shameful impression of Costa Eleven former and current local politicians and officials have been quizzed by ... that, from 2001 to 2018, 32 million cubic metres of waste was dumped by Coín, more than the 25 million cubic metres stored in the medium-sized El Limonero reservoir behind Malaga city. Despite the pollution, the regional government had only ever issued
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E. CABEZAS / A. J. GUERRERO
The search for a 55-year-old gyrocopter pilot continues after the aircraft he was flying crashed into the reservoir at Iznájar. Pablo Benthem, who is from Madrid but lives in Moclinejo, set off from Antequera airfield at 10am on Tuesday morning ... but police received a number of calls at around 11.20am that what was reported as a helicopter had plunged into the reservoir. The principal line of enquiry at present is that Benthem, who is also a diving, paragliding and paramotor instuctor, was ... both helicopters and drones, as well as bringing in specialist divers to survey the floor of the reservoir which is in some parts 60 metres deeps. Antonio Quijano, in charge of the operation, said that the aircraft involved was a "two-seater
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E. Cabezas / a. j. guerrero
The search for a 55-year-old gyrocopter pilot continues after the aircraft he was flying crashed into the reservoir at Iznájar. Pablo Benthem, who is from Madrid but lives in Moclinejo, set off from Antequera airfield at 10am on Tuesday morning ... but police received a number of calls at around 11.20am that what was reported as a helicopter had plunged into the reservoir. The principal line of enquiry at present is that Benthem, who is also a diving, paragliding and paramotor instuctor, was ... both helicopters and drones, as well as bringing in specialist divers to survey the floor of the reservoir which is in some parts 60 metres deeps. Antonio Quijano, in charge of the operation, said that the aircraft involved was a “two-seater
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A. M. ROMERO
...wards in the Guadalhorce hospital and a pipeline to connect the Concepción reservoir in Marbella with La Viñuela in the Axarquía, are just a few more of the tasks already on the desks waiting for the new regional government officials.