“Early water shortages concern to municipalities,”
“the Combination of last year’s hot summer and lack of rain during the spring and the fall, that several municipalities have to plan for that it can be a difficult summer, reports the Swedish Radio.”
“About half of the country’s municipalities to take their water from the big grundvattenmagasinen, but now are groundwater levels far below the normal at several places in the country, according to the Swedish geological survey (SGU) latest measurements.”
“– It is very important to have a degree of readiness to be able to pull the brake later in the year, ” says Bo Thunholm, hydrogeolog at SGU, to SR.”
“the Preparations are already underway in parts of the country. Both on Gotland and in Sala municipality has passed out invitations to the residents to save on water.”
“– Already in april, we will most likely introduce bevattningsförbud on the entire island, ” says Karl-Johan Boberg (C), chairman of the technical committee at Region Gotland.”
