Stergiou (EYDAP): Attica’s water reserves are sufficient for one year

A hard hydrological twelvemonth for Greece

The year 2025 is shaping up to beryllium 1 of the astir challenging hydrological years Greece has faced successful decades. Prolonged adust spells and unusually precocious temperatures person caused a important driblet successful h2o reservoir levels crossed the country. Despite these conditions, the Attica region, which includes the superior Athens, remains — astatine slightest for present — successful a unafraid position.

Speaking to Parapolitika 90.1 FM and journalist Niki Lymberaki, EYDAP President Giorgos Stergiou said:“Current h2o reserves successful Attica are capable for 1 twelvemonth — adjacent if not a azygous driblet of rainfall falls during that time.”

Reservoirs held up — acknowledgment to aboriginal intervention

Mr. Stergiou emphasized that the Mornos, Yliki, and Evinos reservoirs had seen declining levels passim 2024, but aboriginal activation of backup wells and the usage of underground h2o reserves helped stabilize the situation.“The measures of the past 18 months are showing results. For the archetypal clip successful years, we’re moving with prevention — not conscionable situation management,” helium said.

He besides highlighted that government coordination between the ministries of Environment, Infrastructure, and Climate Crisis was “much faster than successful erstwhile drought periods.”

The Kremasta task – a semipermanent safeguard

A cardinal constituent of EYDAP’s semipermanent strategy is the Kremasta Project, which aims to unafraid h2o proviso stableness for the greater Athens country for decades to come.“This is simply a semipermanent solution that volition guarantee unchangeable h2o proviso for galore years ahead,” said Stergiou, noting that the networks connecting Mornos, Evinos, and Yliki remain the captious arteries of Attica’s h2o system.

Desalination: a last-resort measure

Addressing the imaginable of desalinated water, Stergiou clarified that EYDAP views it arsenic a “last-resort option.”“Desalination volition lone determination guardant if clime conditions worsen dramatically and each different alternatives are exhausted. For now, our absorption remains connected sustainable usage of existing resources,” helium explained.

Nonetheless, EYDAP has already begun feasibility studies and aviator initiatives successful areas wherever desalination could play a supporting relation — specified arsenic the Saronic Gulf islands.