 Around the World: Greece
(China Daily)
Updated: 2008-07-02 07:42 Water sent to Cyprus Parched Cyprus took its first delivery of water by ship from Greece on Monday to stave off a drought which has sapped water reserves to critically low levels and triggered emergency rationing. A tanker containing some 40,000 cubic meters of drinking water - more than double the quantity held in all of the Mediterranean island's 17 main reservoirs - anchored off Cyprus's southern coast close to midnight. Cyprus is suffering one of the worst droughts on record, triggering emergency rationing to households, expediting plans for desalination units and sending devout Christians into churches to pray for rain. (China Daily 07/02/2008 page12) |
