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Weather front boosts water supply for two extra days: WRA 04/28/2021 09:17 PM CNA photo April 28, 2021 Taipei, April 28 (CNA) A wet weather front has helped raise water levels in reservoirs across the country, providing precious water amid a severe drought, the Water Resources Agency (WRA) said Wednesday. According to the WRA's latest estimate, some 2.82 million cubic meters of rainwater was collected in reservoirs around Taiwan from midnight to 4 p.m. that day. According to WRA Deputy Director-General Wang Yi-feng (王藝峰), the timely rain fell "in the right places" for reservoirs' catchm...

Kaohsiung to drill 7 wells by end of April amid drought 04/27/2021 02:41 PM CNA photo April 27, 2021 Kaohsiung, April 27 (CNA) Kaohsiung is hoping to complete the drilling of seven wells by the end of this month to provide much-needed water to the city amid a serious drought, the city government said Tuesday. When completed, the seven wells are expected to provide 21,000 cubic meters of groundwater a day, which will be channeled to the Chengqing Lake Reservoir via underground pipes, it said. According to Tsai Chang-jhan (蔡長展), director-general of the city's Water Resources Bureau, two w...

Weekend rainfall helps farmers, but reservoirs still dry: officials 04/26/2021 09:16 PM CNA file photo Taipei, April 26 (CNA) The rainy weather over the weekend helped some of Taiwan's farmers after a months-long drought, but the 1.2 million cubic meters it is expected to deliver to reservoirs will not do much to boost the overall water supply, officials said Monday. Tsai Sheng-fu (蔡昇甫), chief of the Agency of Irrigation under the Council of Agriculture (COA), told CNA that the wet weather system brought rainfall to some drought-stricken agricultural hubs, especially in Kaohsiung and Pi...

AFP A Chinese airline has dismissed as "rumor" a report circulating on social media that one of its cabin crew was ordered by a branch secretary of the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to entrap two high-ranking officials by embroiling them in a sexual scandal. "We have taken note of reports that are circulating about certain unsavory text messages sent to one of our employees," Shanghai-based China Eastern Airlines said in a statement on its official Weibo account on Friday. "Following verification, we can confirm that these reports were deliberately fabricated and are mal...

Archyde April 9, 2021 by archyde (Newly added: Mayor Chen Qimai’s response, Water Resources Bureau’s explanation) The water conditions in the south are severe. The “Shiguo River” polluted by livestock wastewater in the Huaantuankou and Donggang Creek in Pingtung have also become sources of water for the residents of Kaohsiung. The Fengshan Reservoir, which diverts water from the Donggang River, has increased from 20,000 tons of water for the people’s livelihood in Kaohsiung to 50,000 tons. However, the CEO of the Earth Citizen Foundation, Li Genzheng, said that Donggang Creek is hea...