First of all, if you are on holiday, or just about to arrive, then I know that you don’t want to hear this but let me tell you; we really need the rain.
You may know that we have had water restrictions here for a while - we can’t use hose pipes or fill swimming pools - but things are starting to look up.
Over the last couple of weeks we’ve had quite a bit of rain and so the reservoirs are starting to fill up a bit. Not a lot, but enough to make the introduction of real water restrictions (e.g. no water at all during certain times of the day) become an unlikely possibility. Last week in fact the restrictions were lifted but quickly reinstated after it was realised that the water levels were still too low. However, a few more days of heavy rain might just be enough to lift the restrictions for the summer and take us into the winter without worrying too much about consumption or fines.
So like I said: Rain, rain, beautiful rain!
“Hang on a minute, what’s that I said about fines?” I can hear you asking. Well I saw a leaflet that explained all about the water shortage, the restrictions and also mentioned something about fines if a household went over a certain usage level. The leaflet was multilingual but unfortunately it was a friend’s copy and I don’t have it to hand.
Where did my friend get it from? The Tourist Information Office! What’s that about? Why can you only get information about the shortage from the tourist board? Why isn’t this information being provided with our water bills?
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