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Water flow into the dams this month has made it the best May on record, the Water Development Department said on Thursday. Up until May 19, some 9.6 million cubic metres flowed ...

Rainfall for May has already reached 163 per cent of the average just halfway into the month, with many areas recording triple or more amounts of the rain average. Meanwhile, reservoirs ...

The island’s dams are currently 39.6 per cent full, with a total storage of 115.2 million cubic metres of water, the Water Development Department (WDD) said on Monday. Chief technical engineer ...

Reservoirs across the island reached about 38 per cent of capacity on Monday – a marked increase on the same time last year. Overall, the dams are now 37.9 per cent full, corresponding ...

The Ayia Marina Chrysochous dam in Paphos overflowed on Saturday morning, the third of the eight dams in the district, following the rain of the recent days. The overflow “is ...

Recent rainfall has contributed more than twelve million cubic metres of water to Cyprus’ reservoirs, offering limited short-term relief, while overall reserves remain significantly below those recorded during the corresponding ...

Above-normal rainfall is expected in Cyprus over the next two weeks, the climate watch advisory group of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Friday. The forecast period runs from ...

Dams across Cyprus are currently 21 per cent full, the Water Development Department (WDD) said on Monday, although they reiterated that reserves remain low despite recent rainfall. Senior WDD technical engineer ...

Water runoff into the island’s dams saw a substantial uptick in recent days, although the overall situation remains precarious, a former official told the Cyprus Mail on Tuesday. Over ...

The Pomos dam, with a capacity of 890,000m³, overflowed on Saturday morning following recent heavy rainfall in the region. This development is in stark contrast to the island’s broader ...

Cyprus dams stood at a capacity of 14.1 per cent on Friday, a figure only slightly higher than half of that at same time last year, the water development department (WDD) ...

The Kato Pyrgos dam in Tylliria overflowed on Monday after days of rain saw it reach full capacity over the weekend. “We express our particular satisfaction with the overflow of ...

Water supply in the Paphos district faces disruption after severe sea turbulence reduced output from desalination plants, compounding an already critical water situation across Cyprus, the water development department said ...

Despite heavy rains over the weekend, no significant amount of water flowed into the reservoirs of the Paphos district, the Water Development Department said on Monday. But the WDD’s ...

With expectations for a fourth winter of drought ahead and the island’s dams at very low capacity, the agriculture ministry said this week it is examining using cloud seeding ...

The government on Tuesday sought to downplay worries that – amid the persistent drought – Cyprus will dry out, insisting it has taken a series of actions ensuring adequate water supply. But ...

The audit office should be commended for highlighting the long-term water policy failures, for which all the governments of the last 30 years have a share of responsibility. They have all ...

The mayor of Akamas on Thursday sounded the alarm over plans to build a dam in the environmentally sensitive area of Ai Vouni, warning of serious dangers to local communities ...

A total of 1.6 million cubic metres of water flowed into Cyprus’ reservoirs in the last four days, water development department representative Yianna Economidou said on Friday. Speaking to the Cyprus ...

Cyprus’ reservoirs are only a third full, data released on Saturday shows. The figure was revealed after the latest reading of the dams on Wednesday, which showed that there are 95.9 ...

Low water levels in dams and reservoirs are an ongoing cause for concern with summer just around the corner, despite authorities having announced a slew of projects to beat potential ...

Despite some freakishly adverse weather in February, rainfall for the month was only 48 per cent of the average for the time of year, while temperatures had clocked in at 2.1 degrees ...

Water levels of in the vast majority of the islands’ dams are well below half of their capacity, it emerged on Monday. Low rainfall last year coupled with a prolonged ...

Dam capacity this year so far is a cause for concern as it is almost 20 per cent less than the previous year, the deputy director of the water development department ...