Sewerage Company

The recent downpours in Athens, which caused the closure of a major thoroughfare, Poseidonos Avenue, and sent sewage spilling out into the streets of the affluent southern coastal suburbs, serve as a poignant metaphor.

The Environment Ministry has scaled back its plan to merge municipal water and sewerage companies (DEYAs) on the islands, following opposition from local governments. 

According to a draft bill set to be released for public consultation, the existing DEYAs and municipal water services in the islands of the Cyclades, the Dodecanese and the Northern Aegean will remain unchanged.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis laid out the government’s goals for the next three years, following the economic announcements made at the 88th Thessaloniki International Fair (TIF), during his customary press conference.

The issue of water-logging that experts say our country is facing due to prolonged drought has led the relevant agencies to mobilize. The problem of water scarcity is of course a headache for EYDAP which has to take care of the water supply of a large part of the basin and especially the capital and the surrounding municipalities.

The Athens Water Supply and Sewerage Company (EYDAP) is activating supplementary water sources to reinforce the water supply in Attica due to the prolonged drought, stated the CEO of EYDAP, Haris Sachinis, in an interview with the Athens-Macedonian News Agency (AMNA) published on Sunday. 

The nightmare of no rain and severe drought, which deprives the EYDAP reservoirs of rainwater and precious snow that are the main water sources, looms over Attica again, creating a besieged situation on the islands preparing for a difficult summer.

The European Investment Bank will provide advisory services to the Athens Water Supply and Sewerage Company (EYDAP) in Greece to support the company's 2-billion-euro, 10-year investment program to ensure the Greek capital has a more resilient water supply.

With a total amount of 10,150,000 euros, 22 Municipalities, two municipal enterprises and four Regions of the country are subsidized, to support the fire victims and the restoration of the damages from the fires of the last weeks.

The water in Thessaloniki is "perfectly safe" and has not been affected by an instance of oil contamination detected last January, the city's Water Supply and Sewerage Company (EYATH) said on Thursday in response to a newspaper report on an ongoing judicial investigation into the incident.

What was the Radical Left Coalition (SYRIZA) darling Rena Dourou doing on the night that Greece was shamed by the Eurogroup and was on the brink of leaving the Eurozone? She was working for the appointment of her partner Yiannis Benisis as the CEO of the Athens Water Supply and Sewerage Company (EYDAP).