POWER RATIONING IN SWEDEN
EFFECTS OF PROTRACTED DROUGHT STOCKHOLM. As a result of this summer’s unusually protracted drought, which has seriously reduced the supply of water in lakes and rivers, Sweden has recently had to introduce the rationing of electric power. In the first place, the rationing will affect neon-adver-tising, shop-window illumination, etc., but industry and private consumers will also have to cut down their consumption. Another serious consequence of the drought is that timber floating in the rivers has largely been stopped. Millions of logs have become stuck in the shallow rivers, and a good deal of the timber cut will have to remain in the forests over the winter. Several sawmills will probably have to close down because of lack of raw material, and the forest owners will suffer considerable losses through the deterioration in quality to which the logs are being exposed. This deterioration is estimated at 25 per cent, for sawing timber and 15 per cent, for pulp wood.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25346, 20 November 1947, Page 5
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