Sixth tanker from Greece to unload water in Cyprus

The first phase of unloading water from tankers, from Greece, is expected to be completed on Thursday, with the arrival of the sixth ship in Cyprus.

District Director of the Water Development Department Nicodemos Nicodemou said that five ships have already made two or three trips from Elefsina, in Greece, to Limassol, on Cyprus’ southern coast.

Τhe arrival of the sixth ship on Thursday is expected to accelerate the procedure of importing water from Greece, since further analyses at the state laboratory, which takes around 48 hours, will not be necessary, he added.

''The water has always been tested. As stipulated in the contract, during the first trips of the tankers all analyses were carried out at the state laboratory and the water was found to be unadulterated. During the trips that followed the first journey, samples of water were taken and tested but these tests did not take as much time as the first analyses,'' he said.

Nicodemou noted that the stored quantity in the Kouris dam, one of Cyprus’ biggest reservoirs, is just one million cubic metres and is not being used, but is being reserved for emergencies.