Downpours do little to ease drought conditions in southern Taiwan

A weather front brought heavy downpours to much of Taiwan on Monday night, but less than 5 percent of the rain ended up in reservoirs in the drought-stricken southern part of the island, the Water Resources Agency (WRA) estimated Tuesday.

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