Athens Water Crisis Recedes as Mornos Reserves Triple

Emergency alarms were triggered successful autumn 2025 astir Mornos. Credit: AMNA

A important displacement has been observed successful the Mornos catchment country implicit the caller months, arsenic the exigency alarms triggered successful autumn 2025 regarding Athens’ h2o sufficiency statesman to fade.

Within astir six months, the reservoir’s reserves person multiplied, transforming the scenery of the artificial water to the constituent wherever its waters erstwhile again submerged the colony of Kallio.

To enactment this successful perspective, connected October 10, 2025, Mornos’ reserves had plummeted to $167,786,000$ cubic meters. As of April 8, those reserves stood astatine $491,629,000$—a astir threefold increase.

Record rainfall drives betterment astatine Mornos

“The latest high-resolution outer imagery from 15 days agone shows the aboveground country of Lake Mornos astatine astir 14 quadrate kilometers, which is astir 20% beneath the seasonal norm. We are intelligibly successful a overmuch amended presumption than we were past autumn, though inactive somewhat beneath average,” noted Kostas Lagouvardos, meteorologist and Research Director astatine the National Observatory of Athens (NOA), successful a connection to the Orange Press Agency.

Regarding precipitation, helium explained that the archetypal 4th of the twelvemonth has been “impressive.”

Both NOA stations successful the Mornos basin recorded their highest rainfall for the archetypal 3 months of the twelvemonth successful the past decade.

Furthermore, portion snowfall screen was beneath mean successful March, caller upwind fronts person brought levels backmost to near-normal conditions.

“No country for complacency”

Commenting connected the Athens Water Supply and Sewerage Company’s (EYDAP) authoritative data, Lagouvardos emphasized that portion the contiguous situation from past autumn has passed, caution is inactive required.

“We indispensable not go complacent. We are entering the adust play of outpouring and summer, wherever evaporation increases with rising temperatures and depletion people peaks.”

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