Water

The drought has reduced agricultural output by about 20 percent compared to the average annual yield, and by 30 percent compared to the previous, record year.

That is why the lost value exceeds a billion dollars, says Milan Prostran, an agriculture expert.

Greece's Shipping Industry and the General Secretariat for the Aegean and Island Policy have signed a 870,000 euro contract for the construction of a desalination plant on the remote Dodecanese island of Kastellorizo.

There will be a temporary increase in sea swell around August 11, Iskren Kuyumdzhiev from the National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology (NIMH) announced, quoted by Focus News. 

The swell will again normalise on August 12.

The average monthly temperature of seawater is 22 to 24 degrees, but it could reach 27-28 degrees in some days, he said.

The wife of one of the seven workers who died in the Aegean province of Muğla's Güllük district after being poisoned from methane gas at a wastewater refining facility in 2013 said she turned down 1 million Turkish Liras worth of "blood money" that was offered by the sewage treatment firm in return for her to drop the charges against them. 

Scarce rainfall and water supply problems are some of the reasons why the Italian capital Rome may be forced to introduce water regime this week, the British newspaper Guardian wrote.

Residents in Paphos face the possibility of severe water shortages if there is little rain this winter as plans to construct a new desalination plant for the district continue to move at a sluggish pace.

Unexpected ‘technical difficulties’ have delayed the invitation of tenders for the creation of the new plant in Kouklia leaving the district at the mercy of Mother Nature.

The huge iceberg, which a week ago separated from Antarctica, began to move to the open sea, world agencies reported.

The huge piece of ice weighs 1 trillion tons and has a size of 5800 sq. km.

The latest satellite images show that the distance between the iceberg and the ice of Antarctica is increasing. The photographs were taken with the Deimos 1 satellite.

Sudden and heavy rainfall in Thessaloniki and other parts of northern Greece caused major traffic disruption and other problems on Monday.

Due to the hours of rainfall, many regional roads were flooded, blocking motorists and leading to several road accidents though no injuries had been reported by late afternoon.

The European Commission has sent to Bulgaria and Cyprus a formal warning letter to initiate a criminal procedure for detected deficiencies in the implementation of the requirements of Directive 91/271 on urban wastewater treatment, according to BGNES.

A lot of the stations of the Paris subway were flooded this Sunday due to heavy rainfall, said "Mond". This has forced the affected lines to stop work.

Firefighters, who were overworked at night, urged citizens not to call them to pump water because they have no more spare cars.