Sami

“Water: There’s not enough. Therefore, we are careful to have it.” This was the message Athenians were “bombarded” with every day in the campaign for water conservation during the great drought of the late 1980s and into the mid-1990s.

The scientific community is sounding the alarm over the water scarcity alert that has been sounded in many parts of the country. A total of 14 municipalities in the country have been declared a state of emergency by the General Secretariat of Civil Protection.

A tragic ending to the thriller that had been ongoing since yesterday afternoon on the island of Kefalonia with the 20-year-old South African man being found dead this morning in the sea off the beach of Palioura.