THE BEST FINANCE NEWS ON PAGES 18 ‐ 22 Issue No. 1936 11 - 17 August 2022
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DWINDLING WATER RESERVES Winners of top THE seven reservoirs in Malaga together ended the week of August 1 to 7 at 45 per cent of their capacity, with 278 cubic hectometres of water, according to data from the Junta de Andalu‐ cia’s Hidrosur. They are cur‐ rently storing a total of 16 hectometres less than they were a year ago. Water reserves in the largest reservoir in the province and the main sup‐ plier of drinking water to the Axarquia region, La Viñuela, continue to fall as a result of a drier than usu‐ al year that has also consid‐ erably reduced the levels of water in the wells and springs that feed the inland regions. The La Viñuela reservoir is currently at 12.44 per cent of its capacity, with just 20.44 cubic hectome‐ tres of the 164 that it can hold, almost half of what it stored at this time last year. Such worrying figures have not been seen since October 2008, when the
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REPRESENTING SPAIN: Mister RNB Spain 2022.
CONTINUING TO FALL: Water reserves of La Viñuela are at only 12.44 per cent.
water reserves at La Viñuela reached an all‐time low and it was at only 9 per cent of its capacity. This reservoir, built on al‐ most six kilometres of the river Guaro, collects water from a dozen other tribu‐ taries, including the Bena‐ margosa, Alcaucin and Granados rivers. It was cre‐ ated over an area of more
than 500 hectares and is al‐ most 100 metres deep, with 60 per cent of its wa‐ ter being used for agricul‐ tural purposes. It was inau‐ gurated 36 years ago and was completely filled for the first time in 1998. By contrast, the reservoir that currently has the most water in terms of volume is the Guadalteba, at 68 per
cent, with 103 cubic hec‐ tometres of water available out of a total capacity of 153. La Concepción is at 79 per cent, although it is much smaller. The Guadal‐ horce stands at 35 per cent of its capacity; the Conde del Guadalhorce, at 57 per cent; Casasola, at 54 per cent and Limonero, at 47 per cent.
tourism and how represen‐ tative they are of the Span‐ ish way of life. The jury, as there are hundreds of chiringuitos scattered along the Spanish
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Ayo’s Food of Spain award AYO’S chiringuito (beach bar) has been around for more than half a century. The establishment, located on Burriana beach in Nerja, was awarded a Food in Spain Award by the Spanish Ministry of Agriculture, Fish‐ eries and Food on August 5. The Spanish government awarded the prize to the business organisation Hostelería de España and in particular to the chiringui‐ tos, in recognition of how important they are for
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WAY OF LIFE: Ayo at his chiringuito on Burriana beach.
ON Sunday August 7, the Villa de Nerja Cultural Centre hosted the final gala of Mister RNB Spain 2022, one of the country’s top beauty pageants. The winners of the competition will now go on to represent Spain in the biggest beauty contests in the world. Pablo Estrada, representing Soria, was proclaimed Mister RNB Caballero Universal; Abel Muelas, from Badajoz, is the new Master GNI Spain Global; Borxa Ramo, the candidate from Teruel, will represent Spain as Mister International; and finally, Iván Álvarez, repre‐ senting Pontevedra, has been proclaimed Supranational Master. The councillor for Popular Traditions, Elena Gálvez, and the councillor of the PSOE Municipal Group, Begoña Pascua, presented the sashes to the winners. Gálvez congratulated the winners and thanked Juan Delgado and Jesús Bueno, the presidents of RNB Spain, for hav‐ ing chosen Nerja to hold the event, which contributed to the national and international promotion of tourism throughout the week.