Wednesday, 18 May 2011

The Rain in Spain - nope that should France

We are getting worried about the lack of rain in southern England but in France the situation is worse. The Telegraph reports .....

More than two-thirds of France's water tables are at below-normal levels, the Office of Geological and Mining Research (BRGM) said separately.

Nearly a third of the country's 95 departments, or administrative districts, have imposed water restrictions on part or all of their territory.

The worst-hit region is Poitou-Charentes, in the centre west, where restrictions have halved irrigation levels for farmland and outlawed lawn water and the filling of swimming pools.

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