#water shortage

Plans are afoot to deal with potential water shortages in Cyprus after a year of below average rainfall so far, water development department deputy director George Kazantzis said on Saturday. ...

Athienou was hit by a water shortage on Thursday. The town’s municipality said the shortage had hit due to problems in the water development department’s central water supply. ...

As strange as it may seem, the availability of a sufficient amount of water, or lack of it, has a direct effect on real estate demand and prices, especially in ...

The European Union’s ‘Med9’ states’ agriculture ministers on Monday called for a “holistic approach” to water, which will ensure that the region’s inhabitants can live sustainably in the ...

Technical difficulties which were challenging to diagnose, were the reason Lageia village was left without water for over a week, Deputy Mayor Areti Miltiadou said on Friday. Residents had earlier ...

Apart from complaints by farmers, little has been said in public about the acute water shortage facing the country. It is almost as if it is no problem for the ...

Cyprus is experiencing its 10th worst year of rainfall since 1900, Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou said on Wednesday as she announced a number of measures aimed at tackling the extended period ...

Water levels at the country’s reservoirs have dropped critically and measures to intensify fines for wastage are being deliberated, acting director of the water development department (WDD) George Kazantzis ...

Construction of two new desalination plants in Limassol and Famagusta was under review on Tuesday spurred on by the prevailing drought conditions and water shortage fears. The state is under ...

Water being pumped into the north from Turkey was cut off on Tuesday due to a fault at the pumping station near Panagra. The water supply was cut off entirely ...

Famagusta is currently suffering a water shortage due to a malfunction in the pipe which connects the town with the Panagra reservoir, the town’s Turkish Cypriot mayor Suleyman Ulucay ...

A new desalination unit is in the works as well as other projects, to ensure water adequacy in the wake of a looming national water shortage. The national investment plan ...

The water development department is preparing a three-year plan to manage the country’s irrigation needs as Cyprus faces its third-lowest water levels in a decade, chief engineer at the ...

Cyprus is one of six countries identified as facing the greatest water scarcity in the world, according to a report by the World Resources Institute. It found that Cyprus, along ...

The north’s waterworks department announced a water shortage on Monday, caused by power cuts. They say that due to recent power cuts, water cannot be efficiently pumped around the ...

By Laurie Goering Human activities – from destroying forests to burning gas, oil and coal for energy – are disrupting the rainfall the world depends on, fuelling huge economic, health and social ...

Top researchers warned that Cyprus is faced with dire human health impact as it is among the countries situated at the climate change “hot spot”. A study by an international ...

The United States on Wednesday said it will boost support for the Haitian police as they battle armed gangs and will speed up delivery of aid to a country suffering ...

An Erasmus+ research project aiming to enhance water security and socio-economic development in the Eastern Mediterranean under climate change comes to an end this month. WaSec (Innovations in Water Education: ...

Strange as it may seem, water availability affects real estate demand and prices, especially regarding foreign buyers who have a choice of countries. This market from abroad until recently brought ...