At the end of June, a month-long state of emergency was declared for the Dodecanese island of Leros.
ATHENS - After Greece’s warmest winter and earliest heatwave on record, authorities are sounding the alarm over the risk of dire water shortages in the heat of the Mediterranean summer.
Home to more than a third of Greece’s population, the region of 3.7 million inhabitants was recently placed on “yellow alert” by EYDAP, which urged people to reduce consumption to keep reserves at a sustainable level. On some islands suffering from overtourism, the demand for water in summer “is sometimes 100 times greater than in winter”, Nikitas Mylopoulos, a professor of water resource management at the University of Thessaly, told AFP.
Mayor of Sifnos Maria Nadali has criticised “the over-consumption of water for swimming pools and watering large gardens”. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis travelled to Lefkada in July to announce “one of the largest water supply projects in Greece to cover the needs”. Head of EYDAP Charalambos Sachinis has said a “special plan” had been drawn up “to deal with extreme water shortages”, including investments of around 750 million euros .
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