Want China Times
Date: 2015-05-23
By: CNA

As a plum rain front has brought heavy downpours to Taiwan and is expected to

A view from the Shihmen Reservoir in Taoyuan, May 20. (File photo/Yang Tsung-han)

bring more over the weekend, a drought task force under the Ministry of Economic Affairs said on Friday.

The task force that day lifted phase-two water rationing plans imposed in parts of northern and central Taiwan and suspended the implementation of phase-three water rationing in Kaohsiung for two more weeks.

Most areas of Changhua, Miaoli and Taichung in central Taiwan have seen the most significant rainfall of this year, with accumulated rainfall of between 100 mm and 200 mm between Wednesday and Friday afternoon.     [FULL  STORY]