"Ankara mayor hopes holidays will ease drought
Fri Aug 3, 2007 10:56AM BST
ANKARA (Reuters) - The mayor of Ankara has asked residents to take longer summer holidays to help ease a severe water shortage afflicting Turkey's capital, newspapers reported on Friday.
Authorities in Ankara, a city of four million, began imposing draconian water restrictions this week after water levels in dams feeding the city dropped to just four percent."
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