Athens Water Supply Could Run Out in 2.5 Years, Official Warns

Water reserves for the Athens metropolitan country could past lone until precocious 2027 if existent drought conditions persist, a apical authoritative has warned, arsenic 1 of the capital's main reservoirs, Lake Mornos, has fallen to historically debased levels.

The concern is truthful dire that the submerged colony of Kallio, flooded decades agone to make the artificial lake, has reemerged from the receding waters.

"Based connected existent figures... h2o reserves could past lone until precocious 2027," Giorgos Stergiou, president of the Athens Water Supply and Sewerage Company (EYDAP), told Action 24 television. 

Mr. Stergiou said his bureau has been alerting the authorities to the dwindling reserves for implicit a year.

To code the contiguous crisis, EYDAP has begun pumping h2o from exigency wells and different underground sources to bargain clip for longer-term infrastructure projects. 

The situation highlights the urgent request for sustainable h2o absorption arsenic prolonged drought affects Greece and the wider Mediterranean region.