DEYAK requesting funding for new exploratory drilling

Like the saying of Mao Tse Tung, "great disorder... wonderful situation," the DIADEYAK management believes that the now mandatory discussion about water should be positively utilised. Rationalising high consumption and tariffs combined with securing new water sources is in their immediate plans. The response, at least two years late, to the Decentralised Authority Water Directorate's call for deeper drilling in known aquifers, is proving to be a relief but only for a short while. Just enough to get through the season!

The primary and fundamental concern, pending for years but of obvious strategic importance, is to restore the rational management of water as a public resource. It is not acceptable for hotel units, especially large ones, not to have desalination systems as a requirement for their operating licence. Since they are not obliged to have such systems, they purchase wells and preferentially draw from the same aquifer as the local community, resulting in reduced flow to the residential areas!

The same with swimming pools. In the Aegean, it is prohibited to fill them with network water from May to September. Here, this measure has been ignored for all the years that DIADEYAK has been treated by general government services (including Decentralised Administrations) as just another large consumer! And it operates with outdated institutional responsibilities. It calls for support in managing and defending its public character!

At this stage, aptly called the "Ambulance Service (EKAB) water phase", the Ministry of the Interior is being asked for 700,000 euros so that, with the hiring of a hydrogeologist, new exploratory drills can be conducted in the autumn to identify useful reserves that will boost the annual supply well before the needs of next summer.

For now, the head of the inter-municipal enterprise is homebound, struck by lumbago, dispelling a rumour that he wants to pack it in.