Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/05/13
By: Liao Yu-yang and Elizabeth Hsu

Taipei, May 13 (CNA) With the weather forecast to be sunny and stable over the next week, the government and state-run power utility are on high alert over possible water and electricity shortages in the scorching summer days ahead.

Temperatures in densely populated western Taiwan were recorded at over 30 degrees Celsius Sunday noon, and the Central Weather Bureau was predicting sunny and stable weather all over Taiwan in the coming week.

The mercury will rise to as high as 35 degrees or higher on Thursday and Friday, the bureau forecast.

The increasingly warm weather is expected to put pressure on water and electricity supplies, prompting the Water Resources Agency (WRA) under the Ministry of Economic Affairs and the state-run Taiwan Power Co. (Taipower) to go on alert to the possibility of shortages.    [FULL  STORY]