Water, water everywhere!
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| Zimbo |
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Water, water, everywhere! An island surrounded by water now in crisis stage when measures could have been taken some years ago to desalinate. 'Proactive' obviously not a word in the government's dictionary.
However, without sarcastic comments, could someone please advise me what the situation is regarding this precious liquid in the south east of ROC. i.e. to the south of Larnaca. I have potential guests for my apartment but feel reluctant to allow them to have a hard earned holiday spoilt by the water shortage.  |
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| Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 12:48 am |
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Perhaps if we diluted what water we've got it would go further?
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| Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 2:03 am |
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| rawk wrote: |
| Perhaps if we diluted what water we've got it would go further? |
I'm working on a new theory that combines dilution with bacteria removal to eliminate Cyprus’ water shortage and quality problem so could everyone start pissing in their water tanks as of tomorrow?  |
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| Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 3:06 am |
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| Get Real! wrote: |
| rawk wrote: |
| Perhaps if we diluted what water we've got it would go further? |
I'm working on a new theory that combines dilution with bacteria removal to eliminate Cyprus’ water shortage and quality problem so could everyone start pissing in their water tanks as of tomorrow? |
GR will of course will be the quality controller to make sure it is drinkable.
If he is alive after 10 minutes, make him drink another gallon just to make sure. |
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| Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 2:31 pm |
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| Zimbo wrote: |
Water, water, everywhere! An island surrounded by water now in crisis stage when measures could have been taken some years ago to desalinate. 'Proactive' obviously not a word in the government's dictionary.
However, without sarcastic comments, could someone please advise me what the situation is regarding this precious liquid in the south east of ROC. i.e. to the south of Larnaca. I have potential guests for my apartment but feel reluctant to allow them to have a hard earned holiday spoilt by the water shortage. |
They should have water about 3 or 4 days every week. But the water tank should be enough to cover the needs of an apartment during the times with no water unless we are talking about a big family. |
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| Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 3:58 pm |
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| Sotos wrote: |
| Zimbo wrote: |
Water, water, everywhere! An island surrounded by water now in crisis stage when measures could have been taken some years ago to desalinate. 'Proactive' obviously not a word in the government's dictionary.
However, without sarcastic comments, could someone please advise me what the situation is regarding this precious liquid in the south east of ROC. i.e. to the south of Larnaca. I have potential guests for my apartment but feel reluctant to allow them to have a hard earned holiday spoilt by the water shortage. |
They should have water about 3 or 4 days every week. But the water tank should be enough to cover the needs of an apartment during the times with no water unless we are talking about a big family. |
If they are careful by not taking to many showers and keeping them short plus only flushing the loo when it's a solid deposit there's no problem making the available water via the cold water storage tank last.
But and it's a big but ~ do people coming on holiday really want to be inconvenienced to this degree of being so careful with the water ~ it's not something you would expect after paying through the nose for flights plus the expense of an apartment or villa and then being told to limit the amount of time they shower and to only flush when it's brown  .
It's surprising how much water can be used in a normal day for a family of two adults and two kids ~ and it's even more surprising how little we really need if we are careful BUT holidaymakers didn't come here to be careful they have come for an enjoyable stress free break.
I can see that by the end of the year the various holiday discussion forums will be full of complaints due to the effects of the water shortage in Cyprus
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| Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 4:58 pm |
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| is it same situation at the hotels? i hope hotels dont have any limits? |
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| Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 5:02 pm |
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| is it same situation at the hotels? i hope hotels dont have any limits? |
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| Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 5:29 pm |
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| By end of June tankers will be bringing in watr from Greece, enough to cover the summer needs. When are your guests arriving? |
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| Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 5:50 pm |
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| Nikitas wrote: |
| By end of June tankers will be bringing in watr from Greece, enough to cover the summer needs. When are your guests arriving? |
With greatest respect Nikitas the availability of the water brought from Greece will help the situation but will not cover our summer needs ~ there will still be days with water shut off's as we have now .
The logistics of transporting water from such a distance are immense not only from the time it takes to travel from Greece to Cyprus and return but also the charge and discharge times at each point .
There is no doubt that any water no matter how little or how much will help but it sadly will not solve the problem.
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