One week without water in some parts of Central Corfu
CORFU. When residents contacted DEYA, they were told that the new utility could not pay for the replacement of the burned out (?) pump because it is still in a transitional period following the splitting of DIADEYAK.
Having lost their patience, and in desperation the residents of the villages of Central Corfu are once again turning to the newspapers in the hope of finding a solution. The reason? The water supply outage for at least a week now (again) in Kalafationes, Varipatades, Kouramades, and Sinarades. More precisely, and according to the residents, half of each village has water, while the other half does not.
The cause, according to their communication with DEYAK, is the damage to the pump at the spring and the pumping station in Agios Andreas, as well as the inability to finance its replacement in order to restore water supply, due to the fact that the new central municipal DEYA is currently under transitional management.
Any funding is dependent on the restoration of the normal operation of the new utility, which resulted from the breakup of the inter-municipal DEYA—specifically that of the central and southern municipalities.
The partial nature of the water outage is explained by the fact that the villages of Central Corfu receive water from at least three pumping stations. Only one of them—the Agios Andreas station—is not operating.
By publicising the problem, residents hope that some provision will be activated for the interim period so that emergency situations such as this one can be addressed.
GIORGOS KATSAITIS
