THE BEST FINANCE NEWS ON PAGES 14 - 17 Issue No. 1918
Water transfer THE Regional Min‐ istry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Sustainable Development be‐ gan to transfer wa‐ ter from the West‐ ern Costa del Sol to Axarquia on Mon‐ day, April 4, with a flow of 100 litres per second. The aim is to increase the resources avail‐ able for human use in an area suffering from severe water shortages. The transfer will be temporarily in‐ terrupted over Easter. The Junta de An‐ dalucia said that the drought affect‐ ing the Viñuela‐ Axarquia System is considered to be “exceptional”. This is determined by Decree 178/2021, which specifies the indicators of hy‐ drological drought and the exception‐ al measures to be implemented for the management of water resources in the Intra‐Communi‐ ty Hydrographic Districts of Andalu‐ cia. Although the re‐ cent rainfall has improved the situa‐ tion in general, not all areas have ben‐ efited equally. This has been the case in the Viñuela‐ Axarquia System, where the volume of water in reser‐ voirs has only in‐ creased by four cu‐ bic hectometres.
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Urban allotment THE first deputy mayor of Velez‐Malaga, Je‐ sus Perez Atencia, and the councillor for the Elderly, David Segura, announced on Thurs‐ day March 31 that new plots of land will be raffled so that all of the urban allotments in the municipality can be occupied. Perez Atencia said: “These gardens provide an urban leisure area where the residents who have been awarded the contract can plant, grow and harvest their own vegeta‐ bles. This activity goes beyond agricultural work to become a place for social gatherings and participation, which promotes models of healthy eating and sustainable mobility. To‐ day we want to announce the raffle of the three plots that have been released in the ur‐ ban allotments of Velez‐Malaga.” David Segura added: “We want to energise the urban allotments themselves and we have given new people the opportunity to make use of the various empty plots.”
NEW REGULATION: The news will be welcomed by businesses and tourist hotspots across Spain.
MASKS will no longer be mandatory indoors in Spain after Easter following a de‐ cision from the Interterrito‐ rial Council of the National Health System (CISNS) on Wednesday, April 6. Spain’s Minister of Health Carolina Darias informed the CISNS that they will be with‐ drawn from use from April 20. The new regulation will come into force when it is published in the Official State Gazette. The decision comes after a request from several au‐ tonomous communities, such as Madrid, who said the mandatory measure is
no longer an effective way to control the transmission of the coronavirus. The news will be wel‐ comed by businesses and tourist hotspots across Spain, which have struggled with forced closures, regula‐ tions and rules over the past two years since the virus for first detected in the country. News that the Spanish Ministry of Health has de‐ clared Spain officially open to unvaccinated UK trav‐ ellers ‐ requiring only a later‐ al flow test taken in the last 24 hours ‐ could be consid‐ ered further cause for cele‐ bration for the country’s
tourist trade as summer ap‐ proaches and signs that things may be beginning to return to ‘normal’. However, masks are likely to remain mandatory in health centres, nursing homes and on public trans‐ port, while experts have ad‐ vised the Government to recommend a “responsible use” of masks in vulnerable situations; when a safety distance of one and a half metres cannot be main‐ tained and in places where there is no good ventilation, such as shopping centres, supermarkets, shops, cine‐ mas, museums and bars.
ANNOUNCEMENT: New plots of land to be raffled.