As early as mid-winter, regions across the country have begun to declare a state of emergency due to water shortages. In the third segment, we speak with Apostolos Alexopoulos, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Geology at the University of Athens, who highlights the lack of a coherent and rational plan for managing available water resources. He emphasizes that the problem lies not so much in the availability of water resources as in the political leadership’s decision to outsource more and more projects—such as desalination plants or wastewater treatment facilities—to contractors, which, however, do not solve the problem under any circumstances.
Next, we speak with Ilias Gianniris, a former assistant professor at the Technical University of Crete and a Ph.D. in urban and regional planning, who emphasizes the importance of measures to prevent drought and the climate crisis that will support the water cycle. As he notes, there are projects that have already been completed, and instead of being put to use, new ones are constantly being announced without a unified, coordinated approach. The increasing involvement of contracting firms in water management leads, with mathematical certainty, to higher prices for already strained households for the most precious commodity for their survival: water.
