At the beginning of August, the county councils in Jönköping and Kalmar went out with the call that irrigation without permission must stop and that those who have permission to withdraw water limit their withdrawals to nights.
Unauthorized water withdrawals
The Coast Guard's aerial reconnaissance shows that irrigation was taking place at five places during the day in Kalmar County despite earlier calls.
It emerged during today's press conference about the water levels in Emån.
- We will contact these people, but the positive thing is that most of them follow the call, says Ingrid Palmblad Örlander, the county administrative board in Kalmar.
Unauthorized withdrawals must be identified
- We will follow up the permits that exist for water withdrawals, identify any unauthorized withdrawals that take place and we work with broad information.
We can also proceed more strongly with injunctions and prohibitions, says Gustav Enander, head of department at the nature department at the county administrative board in Jönköping.
Hear more about the County Boards' work with monitoring Emån in the clip.