OR water scarcity is a serious problem for the country with the government seek ways to deal with it.
Bloomberg, with its current publication, presents the main axes of the government’s plan to find a solution to the water scarcity problem.
The report speaks that Greece has in its plans to merged hundreds of small water companies, As due to drought the dams that feed Athens are at the lowest level of the last three decades.
Characteristically emphasized citing a government source that Over 700 water supply companiesmost of which are controlled by municipalities, will be merged into three.
EYDAP and EYATH the water supply companies for Athens and Thessaloniki respectively will extend their coverage, while a third company will take responsibility for the rest of the country.
The government even plans to set up a new fund to finance the dams, desalination units and other investments.
End, Attica and Crete will be described as “lack of water”In order to accelerate the new projects, the same government source notes.
According to Bloomberg, Greece decides these measures as it experiences a heat wave that raises temperatures in the mainland up to 43 degrees Celsius this week. Water stocks for 4.4 million people in the capital and wider area of Attica have been reduced for three consecutive years Due to the heat and low rainfall.