These are dramatic images from Greece: The Mornos reservoir is shrinking, causing a once submerged village to resurface.
Athens – Heat, drought and water shortages: Greece is currently driest in around 30 years. As a result, numerous Regions in the popular holiday destination are under a state of emergency The drought is also gradually drying up the Mornos reservoir. This has now brought a submerged village to light.
Important reservoir in Greece sinks – and reveals sunken village
The reservoir that supplies the Greek capital Athens with water has shrunk by a quarter in the past two years. “The water level is falling day by day. This has not happened for 33 years,” Dimitris Giannopoulos, mayor of the municipality of Dorida, told the news agency Reuters.
The village of Kallio was flooded at the end of the 1970s to create the artificial lake. “I grew up there, there were still about 80 houses at the time,” a former resident told the local broadcaster OpenAt that time, only a few dozen people were still living there. Some went to Athens, 250 kilometers away, others moved to nearby villages.
The falling water levels have brought the foundations of the sunken village back to light. Holidaymakers and former residents can now marvel at the remains of the village. And this is not the first time. In 1993, the walls were brought to light again during an extreme water shortage. A simulation by researchers from Hamburg shows a completely different development: According to a Map some North Sea islands could soon disappear be.
Are water saving measures imminent in Greece?
But the situation is serious. If the coming winter is as rainy and snow-poor as the last one, Athens will have to take water-saving measures next year, said Kimon Chatzibiros, professor of ecology and environmental policy at the Technical University of Athens. This includes, for example, banning washing cars with a garden hose.
The lack of rain had already increased the risk of forest fires in Greece. In some regions it had not rained at all for months. Only recently A massive fire threatened the metropoli
s of Athens. As the New Zurich Newspaper reported, it is expected to rain in large parts of the country at least in the coming days. Meanwhile, Experts dismayed by dramatic disintegration of Titanic wreck. (kas/dpa)
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