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Relief for farmers and gardeners but no end to drought risk yet

The heavy rain this week has been welcome news for farmers and gardeners

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Friday, 20 October 2017, 11:22

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The heavy rain this week has been welcome news for farmers and gardeners.

The local agricultural sector was particularly pleased as its permission to use irrigation water on parched crops in the dry season was coming to an end soon. Also, as much of the rain that fell was moderate, it has given the water time to enter the ground.

Before the storms local reservoirs were just a third full, with some, like La Viñuela, lower and nearing critical. Marbella's smaller La Concepción reservoir was at 57 per cent capacity earlier this week and so far the rain has had little affect.

The Acosol water company on the western Costa has started a campaign to urge people to use water sparingly.

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