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News, August 2006More NewsA few more news items and where to find more news about Spain:Water reserves:In a second year of drought, water reserves are important. At 15th August the reservoirs were down to 43.9% of capacity. The situation remains critical in the South East. Reserves remain at the lowest levels since the drought of the early 1990s. In particular, the Jucar river reservoirs, feeding the Costa Blanca, have just 5.8 of capacity, the Segura (Mar Menor) has 12.2%, Malaga has 15.3% and the upper Tajo area, Spains largest reservoir system, which could feed many parts of the south and east, has a mere 10.2% Orchards and golf courses alike could soon be left dry in the region of Murcia (Segura basin), while swimming pools may be reprieved again this summer. www.elmundo.es has almost 10 million unique monthly visitorsEl Mundo, as well as a very popular printed paper, is Spain's most widely read electronic news service and in June 2006 hit the 9.89 million unique readers mark, having crossed the 6 million mark in January 2005. The number increased rapidly over 2004, with events like 3/11 and the Royal Wedding, but slowed early in 2005, reaching 6,789,725 in July '05 and then climbing gradually over the past winter. Other papers lag, with dailies specialising in sport having most success: www.marca.com has reached 3 million and www.as.com is now closing on 2 million, with the second general daily www.abc.es also above the million. 'Circulation' stats are the speciality of www.ojd.es which can be read in English. From all the surveys of electronic media, it is clear that they are by far the most read among office workers. More info at http://ojdinteractiva.ojd.es/listadomedios.htm April 2005: The printed version of El Mundo has not suffered from its electronic daughter. In March it hit 1.387.000 copies sold daily, an increase of 5.6%, strengthening its posistion as Spain's nº2 daily newspaper. Nevertheless, this is still way behind El País, which sells over two million copies. The digital version of El País is, sadly, only available beyond the 'cover' by subscription. Yet neither of these papers sells as many as Marca, the sports daily, with over 2.5 million copies. Annual visits to P4S above 30,000December 1st, '05. Figures for the past 12 months give a total of 32,400 visits to PrayforSpain, or 96,400 pages downloaded involving over 214,000 hits. We hardly compare with El Mundo and attain an annual figure of about one month's worth of visits to Protestante Digital, but we may well be close to their English language visits. Thank you for your interest and support! Old News archivePast news is not all forgotten by P4S! Such items as can be found on the news pages at the end of every month are being filed in our archives. Your response and concerns are also of interest to us. Don't hesitate to let us know them Finally, more news from the churches is always available at the Protestante Digital siteThis week on Protestante Digital: (1st August)(PD is now on holiday until September) What are we going to do about the Pope? |