This subject has been treated comprehensively in a document published by other collaborators and myself in 1998/9. This paper can be found at this site. Although it is 6 years old, little has changed except that we have now changed from a drought situation to a reasonably wet one. This winter, it looks as if all the dams will be filled to 100 per cent capacity, for the first time, ever. However, despite three successive very wet winters, the water tables have still not reached normal levels in many places. Water is still being wasted in a completely anarchic way because users will not take the responsibility of their actions.

Unfortunately, there is now too much complacency and no measures have been taken to ensure that there will be sufficient water in the event of another drought, similar to the one we had in the second half of the 1990s. This will happen, sooner or later, and Cyprus will be as unprepared as ever; water rationing will become inevitable again and agriculture will be unable to cope. At least two more 40-50 kilotonne/day desalination plants are required to avoid this happening. Construction should begin now.

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