Concerns over Athens water supply fade as rains fill reservoir

The Mornos reservoir, a cardinal water source for Athens, has shrunk to the smallest it has been since 2014. [InTime News]

Water reserves astatine Greece’s Mornos reservoir person tripled implicit the past six months, ending an alarm implicit the capital’s water supply that had been raised past autumn.

The reservoir held 156,996,000 cubic meters connected October 23, 2025 – its lowest level successful 15 years – earlier climbing to 491,629,000 cubic meters by April 8, 2026, according to information processed by Orange Press Agency from Athens water utility EYDAP figures.

The lake’s surface country likewise rebounded, from 8.3 square kilometers past October – 44% beneath its decade-long mean – to 14.7 square kilometers by April 7, submerging the ruins of Kallio, a shade village that had eerily re-emerged arsenic water levels fell.

Kostas Lagouvardos, probe manager astatine the National Observatory of Athens (NOA), credited grounds rainfall.

“The archetypal 4th of the year saw an awesome magnitude of precipitation successful the country – the highest for those three months successful the past decade,” helium said.

He cautioned against complacency, however.

“We are successful a overmuch amended situation than we were successful the fall, but we are still slightly beneath normal,” Lagouvardos said, warning that rising temperatures, stronger evaporation and summertime depletion would δοκιμή the reservoir successful the coming months.

“We each anticipation for a bully hydrological year,” helium said.

Rainfall astatine some NOA monitoring stations successful the Mornos catchment country reached decennary highs for January-March.