Reservoir storage

[Dominic]

Actually the surface area would rise a bit, as the sides of the reservoir are not vertical.

[PeteandSylvi]

Forget not Dee the abundance of boreholes. The whole of Aphrodite Hills, Secret Valley and the village of Kouklia is supplied by one or more boreholes. I am aware that these are also dependant on rainfall to be replenished; but in the last drought when many areas suffered cuts, our water supply was never once cut off. There are tens of thousands of private boreholes throughout Cyprus, some serving communities, many private households. Some boreholes are legal, but many are illegal.

Good point, Lloyd. Interestingly enough Kannaviou reservoir is the 4th largest in the country, there is a recently completed quite large water treatment plant just outside the village yet Kannaviou Village's water comes from a borehole in the forest. I have been told that the treated water is piped to Peyia.

When I looked at the reservoir figures at the start of the water department's year, it indicated that there was about a years supply left in the reservoirs following last year's drastically low inflow. The level has now been boosted substantially and is bound to increase, so any talk of drought, need for desalination plants or bouzouki led rain dances is pointless this year.

Pete

[Conoflex]

The thing about reductio ad absurdum is that you don't really comment on it

[PW in Polemi]

Our best hope is with the reunification of the island, which could bring with it access to the mains water supply which is now piped into N. Cyprus from Turkey, which is supposed to be sufficient to supply the whole island!
Dee

We have cousins who live in Kyrenia and they say there are many complaints over how expensive this Turkish water is. And of course, don't forget - mustn't upset Erdogan or he may cut off your water supply.

[geoffreys]

Our best hope is with the reunification of the island, which could bring with it access to the mains water supply which is now piped into N. Cyprus from Turkey, which is supposed to be sufficient to supply the whole island!
Dee

We have cousins who live in Kyrenia and they say there are many complaints over how expensive this Turkish water is. And of course, don't forget - mustn't upset Erdogan or he may cut off your water supply.

Whatever the cost of water over in the "north" the main point to make is that they now have all the water they need, without
the need for running expensive desalination plants.
We have a property in Famagusta and the increase in the price of water has been only marginal. But we have it 24/7 now, we used to have it only 3 days a week for 6 hours a day!
This side the extra cost of water due to the use of desalination is likely to be an even higher increase.
Geoff.

[Kili01]

A huge percentege of water use is for agricultural purposes. Encouraging farmers to grow crops which don't need vast amounts of water is also useful. For example the huge number of water melons, melons, spinach, over supply of tomatoes cucumbers etc. which are grown mop up a lot of water.

Dee

[PeteandSylvi]

A huge percentege of water use is for agricultural purposes. Encouraging farmers to grow crops which don't need vast amounts of water is also useful. For example the huge number of water melons, melons, spinach, over supply of tomatoes cucumbers etc. which are grown mop up a lot of water.

Dee

I understood that a large proportion of agricultural water comes from wells situated below the reservoirs level.

I didn't realise there is an over supply of the crops you mentioned. Is there any reference to verify this?

Pete

[cyprusmax47]

Would miss something in CY if there were no oranges, tomatoes, melons, bananas, potatoes, peanuts (all need a lot of water)
home grown, not imported and tasteless. But I could easily cope which less developments of hundreds of villas and apartments growing
like mushrooms...and empty.
I hope Cypriot people which are farmers will not changing to grow these nice veg and fruits...

Max

[Dominic]

I love all the fresh fruit and veg readily available.

[Wallace]

Inflow to reservoirs still significantly short of last years level.
Look up Asprokemas and Kanaviou, neither look likely to achieve last years {low} levels.
Hopefully still be enough to grow the fruit and veg we love Dominic.

[PeteandSylvi]

Inflow to reservoirs still significantly short of last years level.
Look up Asprokemas and Kanaviou, neither look likely to achieve last years {low} levels.
Hopefully still be enough to grow the fruit and veg we love Dominic.

I think you mean storage and not inflow. Inflow this year has already exceeded the whole of last year and could easily end up double.

As I posted earlier there is more than enough stored water for this year.

Pete

[Wallace]

I stand corrected, thank you.