Morno: Water reserves tripled, the village of Kallio was submerged again, see video

A striking, arsenic good arsenic comforting, reversal of fortunes has been recorded successful caller months successful the Morno River basin, arsenic the alarm raised successful the autumn of 2025 implicit h2o adequacy successful the superior appears to beryllium coming to an end.

Within astir six months, h2o supplies successful the reservoir showed a spectacular over-tripling, radically changing the representation of the man-made water and “swallowing” backmost the submerged colony of Kallio, which had emerged offering an representation some otherworldly and alarming astatine the anticipation of an unrelenting drought.

From implicit dryness to an over-tripling of cubic feet

The information processed by the Orange Press Agency is revealing of the velocity of the recovery. On Oct. 23, 2025, the water was astatine its lowest level successful 15 years, with reserves, according to information from EYDAP, having plummeted to 156,996,000 cubic metres. At the past disposable measurement, that of 8 April 2026, the level has risen dramatically, with the measurement of h2o present approaching 491,629,000 cubic metres.

The enlargement of the water aboveground is similar. While connected 9 October 2025 its country had shrunk to 8.3 quadrate kilometres (down 44% from the mean of the past decade), measurements taken connected 7 April 2026 amusement that the water covers more than 14.7 quadrate kilometres.

This summation has resulted – arsenic shown successful the Orange Press Agency’s drone footage – successful the aged colony of Kallio being covered by h2o again, with lone a fewer minimal buildings and partition tops present rising supra the surface, reminiscent of the melodramatic concern of the erstwhile months.

Laguvardos: Impressive rains and snowfall screen person importantly improved the situation

Meteorologist and Director of Research astatine the National Observatory of Athens, Kostas Lagovardos, speaking to the Orange Press Agency, analyzed the latest information from the Athens Observatory’s Artificial Lake Mornos Observatory (meteo.gr), arsenic good arsenic the information of the EADAP, and acknowledged the accelerated change.

“The past high-resolution outer photograph we had a fortnight agone shows the country of the artificial water of Mornos, astatine astir fourteen quadrate kilometers, which is astir minus 20% beneath the mean worth for this period. So we’re successful overmuch amended signifier than we were successful the autumn obviously, but we’re inactive a small spot beneath normal” notes Lagovardos.

As for rainfall, helium explains that “the archetypal 4th of the twelvemonth has been awesome successful the region. Both rainfall gauge stations of the National Observatory of Athens successful the Mornos catchment country are astatine the highest rainfall constituent for the archetypal 3 months of the twelvemonth successful the past decade.

Regarding the snowfall screen of the region, though we had little than mean snowfall screen successful March owed to the constricted phenomena, successful the past fewer days, owed to the phenomena we had from the past atrocious weather, we are presently astir astatine mean levels.”

“We should not beryllium complacent”

Regarding the reserves announced by EYDAP, Costas Lagovardos says that “obviously we are successful a concern that takes america retired of the alarm we had successful the autumn, erstwhile we saw the h2o level successful the artificial water excessively low. But successful nary mode should we beryllium complacent, due to the fact that we’re going into the play present wherever we’re not going to person rainfall successful the area, due to the fact that we’re going into spring, into summer. We volition person much evaporation due to the fact that of the emergence successful somesthesia and of people the depletion that volition travel successful the coming months. And we each anticipation to person a bully hydrologic twelvemonth adjacent twelvemonth arsenic well, truthful we tin accidental that for astatine slightest a agelong play of clip we volition not person a occupation with the availability of h2o from the Morno River.”

The “black” October of 2025

Today’s alleviation comes aft a play of aggravated concern, during which each applicable authorities were mobilised.

It volition beryllium recalled that successful October 2025, the shrinking water had revealed an eerie landscape, evoking memories of the large drought of the aboriginal 1990s. Observatory information astatine the clip showed that 2025 was shaping up to beryllium the driest twelvemonth successful a decade, with rainfall remaining consistently beneath the 2015-2024 average.

By comparison, portion 2018 stocks had peaked astatine 605,563,000 cubic feet, the driblet to 156 cardinal cubic feet past October had made Morno a “shadow” of its erstwhile self. The awesome rainfall successful the archetypal 4th of 2026, which was described arsenic the highest successful the portion successful a decade, was the catalyst that allowed the reservoir to retrieve and the sunken colony of Kallio to instrumentality to wherever it belongs: its “sacrificial” spot astatine the bottommost of the lake.