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With the flagship “Evrytos” task and 7 strategical axes, the authorities ensures the highest-quality nationalist h2o successful Europe and strengthens Attica’s h2o supply, portion EYDAP implements short- and medium-term desalination projects.
Greece is taking strong measures to combat h2o scarcity, with investments of €2.5 billion in h2o absorption projects that volition warrant a unchangeable h2o proviso for Attica implicit the next three decades, announced Minister of Environment and Energy, Stavros Papastavrou, during the 100-year day of EYDAP, successful the beingness of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
At the bosom of the program is the major “Evrytos” project, which involves the partial diversion of the Krikeliotis and Karpenisiotis rivers to the Evinos, aiming to screen the h2o needs of over 50% of the population. The task is expected to beryllium completed successful the first fractional of 2029, exactly 100 years aft the completion of the Marathon dam.
Papastavrou emphasized that Greece is presently at one of the lowest levels of h2o availability, with a reduction of reservoir stocks by 250 cardinal m³ per twelvemonth since 2022 and a 6% summation successful h2o consumption, making Attica peculiarly susceptible to water stress, which reaches 70% of the disposable h2o resources.
Under the model of seven strategical axes, EYDAP is implementing short-term measures, specified arsenic activating wells successful Mavrosouvla, Oungroi, and the Boeotian Kifisos, with a full publication of approximately 150 cardinal m³ of h2o per year. Additionally, medium-term projects are nether consideration, including a h2o assistance pipeline connecting to desalination plants and onshore desalination, which volition supply an additional 87.5 cardinal m³ of h2o per year.
The curate besides highlighted the request for institutional reforms, including the modernization of EYDAP and EYATH regulations, labour and wage flexibility, and the restructuring of 110 nationalist h2o and sewerage companies (DEYAs), to afloat instrumentality the ambitious €2.5 cardinal concern plan.
At the aforesaid time, the authorities is carrying out 151 projects with a fund exceeding €320 million to amended h2o proviso and sewage systems connected over 40 islands, from the Chrysiida task successful Corfu to desalination facilities successful Amorgos and Kastelorizo.
EYDAP CEO, Haris Sachinis, assured: “We volition not permission Athens without water,” while besides noting the imaginable activation of a “Plan B” with extended desalination works.
With these interventions, the authorities secures citizens’ protection, sustainable h2o management, and the strengthening of nationalist assets, keeping h2o as the highest-quality nationalist bully successful Europe.
Source: pagenews.gr
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