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Portugal mulls over rationing water amid extreme drought conditions
Updated On: 07 March, 2022 04:40 PM IST | Mumbai | IANS
Late last month, the Portugal government had announced that it would allocate 5 million euros from its Environmental Fund for awareness campaigns and contingency solutions to fight the severe drought that has spread across the country
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Several cities across Portugal, more than 95 per cent of whose territory is in "severe or extreme drought", have begun to adopt measures to ration water use.
The water crisis is particularly serious in the southern region, where the Algarve Intermunicipal Community on Saturday announced "joint measures" to face the drought, reports Xinhua news agency.
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