Dams in Cyprus are solely 50.1 per cent full with farmers and shoppers on tenterhooks that the island’s extended summertime will result in the identical paltry precipitation as final 12 months’s.
That is what Philenews reported on Monday citing newest figures of the Water Growth Division.
The figures additionally present that the amount saved in massive dams of the nation had been standing at 145.6 million cubic meters of water by final Friday. And this corresponded to 50.1% of their complete capability.
Final 12 months, reserves had been 220.9 million cubic meters the identical interval final 12 months, that’s, 76% full.
Particularly, the biggest dam, Kouris, recorded a storage of 59.2 million cubic meters of water final Friday which corresponds to 51.5% of its capability, in comparison with 81.3% of the identical interval final 12 months.
The dams of the southern pipeline, that’s Kouris, Kalavasos, Lefkara, Dipotamos, Germasogeia, Arminou, Polemidia and Achna recorded a complete capability of 189.4 million cubic meters.
Their saved amount was 47.2% of their capability in comparison with 75% of the corresponding interval final 12 months.