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The Mornos reservoir, a key water source for Athens, has shrunk to the smallest it has been since 2014. [InTime News]<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
Water reserves at Greece\u2019s Mornos reservoir have tripled over the past six months, ending an alarm over the capital\u2019s water supply that had been raised last autumn.<\/p>\n
The reservoir held 156,996,000 cubic meters on October 23, 2025 \u2013 its lowest level in 15 years \u2013 before climbing to 491,629,000 cubic meters by April 8, 2026, according to data processed by Orange Press Agency from Athens water utility EYDAP figures.<\/p>\n
The lake\u2019s surface area similarly rebounded, from 8.3 square kilometers last October \u2013 44% below its decade-long average \u2013 to 14.7 square kilometers by April 7, submerging the ruins of Kallio, a ghost village that had eerily re-emerged as water levels fell.<\/p>\n
Kostas Lagouvardos, research director at the National Observatory of Athens (NOA), credited record rainfall.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe first quarter of the year saw an impressive amount of precipitation in the area \u2013 the highest for those three months in the past decade,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
He cautioned against complacency, however.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are in a much better situation than we were in the fall, but we are still slightly below normal,\u201d Lagouvardos said, warning that rising temperatures, stronger evaporation and summer consumption would test the reservoir in the coming months.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe all hope for a good hydrological year,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Rainfall at both NOA monitoring stations in the Mornos catchment area reached decade highs for January-March.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n