Lagoa council has taken its leaking water supply system and, since 2013, has renewed significant sections in an effort to reduce water loss.
According to the 2016 report from the council’s water supply service, the percentage of water lost at the year-end was 29.5%, a drop of over 10% compared to 2013 when 40% of domestic water was lost between supplier and consumer.
England's Matt Wallace has won the Portugal Open at the Morgado Golf Resort near Portimão.
Wallace led from start to finish and claims his first European Tour title after a final round of 69 to finish ahead of Julian Suri from the US.
The worldwide WannaCry virus has affected 200,000 victims, according to Europol which said this number inevitably will rise on Monday when people get to work and turn on their computers.
"We had never seen anything like it," said Europol’s director Rob Wainwright, who said the virus has hit 150 countries and affected mostly companies.
The Government is eliminating several obligations related to the installation of gas and electricity in properties which to date have entailed significant costs for customers.
Laws have been approved by the Council of Ministers that establish new systems for the installation of gases and electricity in properties while ensuring "safety will be fully assured."
Pope Francis has makes saints of two Portuguese shepherd children on Saturday by announcing to the crowd of around 500,000 gathered at Fátima, "We declare the blissful Francisco Marto and Jacinta Marto saints."
One hundred years ago, three children said they saw the Virgin Mary while tending their sheep. The Church sets the first vision as being on 13 May, 1917.
Portugal's Salvador Sobral has won the Eurovision Song Contest and ends 53 years of national embarrassment .
The bookies’ favourite sung, ‘Amar Pelos Dois’ at the competition hosted in Ukraine at the International Exhibition Centre in Kyiv.
While the media focus was on Pope Francis and the centenary celebrations of the miraculous apparitions at Fátima, a Vatican-sponsored academic conference was debating more scientific celestial goings-on.
Before getting on to revelations about the papal interest in cosmology and astrophysics, let’s recap on the more down-to-earth issues.
A virus that hijacks computer disks is affecting companies worldwide, not least in Portugal where large businesses such as PT, EDP, Santander and KPMG have been affected.
The National Center for Cybersecurity’s Pedro Veiga admitted that today’s computer attack is affecting companies worldwide and may have started in Brazil.
