Water cuts are possible in Nicosia

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Nicosia households could spot their taps tally adust arsenic the metropolis faces imaginable water cuts, the Nicosia Water Authority (EOA) warned connected Thursday, responding to a projected 10% simplification successful supply from authorities water projects.

Officials said the cuts, unlike successful different districts of Cyprus, would straight impact residents who person nary alternate sources similar dams oregon boreholes.

“The city’s web is clear: A 10% chopped to the reservoirs forces alternating water supply, fundamentally water each different day,” the EOA said. “Entire sections of the web would beryllium unopen off, straining pipes and risking leaks when mean supply resumes.”

The Water Development Department has described the simplification arsenic preventive, intended to curb overconsumption. It said residents who trim regular water use by astir 10% would spot small interaction connected regular life.

Nevertheless, the EOA questioned that assumption, noting that during past cuts from 2008 to 2010, household depletion remained mostly unchanged. Many homes had tanks susceptible of storing capable water quantities, while some residents successful the Cypriot superior adjacent installed larger tanks.