Rain delivers 16m tonnes of water to reservoirs: WRASMALL RESPITE: The past few rainy days, which came after one month of virtually no rain on the west coast, did not ease Taiwan’s water shortage problems, the CWB saidBy Shelley Shan / Staff reporterA weather system from southern China has over the past three days replenished Taiwan’s reservoirs with almost 16 million tonnes of water, giving Taiwan a slight relief from a water shortage, the Water Resources Agency (WRA) said yesterday. From 12am on Tuesday to 4pm yesterday, about 15.97 million tonnes fell in the catchment areas of the nation’s reservoirs, which is slightly more than Taiwan’s average daily water use, it said. Average accumulated rainfall in February was 53.9mm, which was about 55 percent of that month’s average, it showed. In March, the average rainfall dropped to 50.7mm, 53 percent of that month’s average, the data showed. No rain was recorded in Tainan, while Taipei, Hsinchu City and New Taipei City’s Tamsui District (淡水) recorded less than 1mm of accumulated rainfall, it showed.

Source: Taipei Times April 29, 2021 15:56 UTC