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repulsewarrior
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TORRENTIAL rains relentlessly battered the island yesterday, with a reported 80 calls to emergency services and traffic jams congesting the motorways and the streets of the capital.
The main problems were reported in the Famagusta, Larnaca and Nicosia districts, with homeowners and motorists calling for help to deal with the effects of the relentless rain, including basement flooding and rescues from stranded cars.
http://www.cyprus-mail.com/cyprus/non-stop-rain-lashes-cyprus/20100227 |
...water problems as the dam fills, the problem remains collecting the water. |
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| Charalampos Theopemptou is the Greek Cypriot side's Environment Commissioner, and it was he who told me the story about the old man in the classroom. He explains its meaning: that within living memory Cyprus was wet - there were plenty of rivers and lakes to swim in. Now, they are all gone. |
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| The island has reached what geographers call Peak Water - when demand meets and then outstrips supply. |
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/8560424.stm |
...international news. |
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Speaking ahead of World Water Day on Monday, WDD Director, Sofoclis Aletraris, said yesterday that various projects were underway to ensure supply and educate people in sustainable water. "By the end of 2011 we hope to be completely independent of rainwater in Cyprus,” he said.
This would be ensured, he said, with the construction of four desalination plants with a capacity to match consumption on the hottest days in summer. "Water from the plants will primarily be used for drinking,” he added. "We are also looking at treating sewage water for use in agriculture."
The WDD will also be clamping down on the hundreds of illegal boreholes in the coming months, he said. |
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| Eliades added: "All of us as citizens, as a society, should increase our awareness of water issues. The drought will come back and we must be sure that you do not waste a drop of water. We need it." |
http://www.cyprus-mail.com/cyprus/free-rain-dependency-2011/20100320 |
...desalianation is one part of a puzzle. the waste, and the cost of energy is enormous. although constructing these types of plants solve our short term demands, cyprus must do more toward finding and innovating new processes. |
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repulsewarrior
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CYPRUS will face Sahara-like conditions in 10 to 20 years if climate change continues at the current rate, experts said yesterday as temperatures clocked in at five degrees higher than average for this time of year.
The stark assessment of Cyprus’ environmental future came a day after the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced the global average temperature in May was the hottest on record.
Yesterday two people ended up in the intensive care unit of Nicosia general hospital after suffering heatstroke. The two foreign workers were admitted as the highest temperature reached 39 degrees Celsius, five degrees higher than the average, which are expected to continue in the coming days.
http://www.cyprus-mail.com/cyprus/no-escaping-scorching-heat/20100618 |
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| Heavy rain also continued yesterday with the heaviest at Larnaca airport - 39mm. |
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| In the village of Panagia residents told local broadcaster CyBC that they had not seen such an amount of snow in 20 years. “We’ve been waiting years to see this,” one resident told TV cameras. |
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| Roussis confirmed however that the total water flow into reservoirs this year was very little, totalling 55.8 per cent of its full capacity and containing 162.3 million cubic metres. Last year it reached 63.7 per cent of its full capacity, containing 185.2 million cubic metres. However he remains optimistic waiting for the snow to melt and flow into the reservoirs. |
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i include this link to this thread because water and energy are crucially interlinked. such research and others like it, which encourage the use of co2 as fuel are a way ahead, beyond burning fossil fuels for energy.
...gizmag is a great newsletter, as well. |
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“We move on to a new era” he said, indicating that water cuts “belong to the past”.
He also noted that the use of Paphos desalination plant, together with the Episkopi and Vasilikos desalination plants, to be completed at the beginning of 2012, will result to full independence from rains, “as the total efficiency of all plants will be 222.000 cubic meters, covering the water needs of all the population and the tourist industry”. |
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| Water reserves in dams at present stand at over 180 million cubic meters, accounting for 62,6% of the total capacity. |
http://www.cyprusweekly.com.cy/main/92,1,283,0,19443-CYPRUS.aspx |
...hopeful words, perhaps because the energy demands are covered by the natural gas off shore.
our population will grow, in this model, more desalination plants; and the waste? |
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| Minister of Commerce, Industry and Tourism, Antonis Paschalides has said that in Cyprus renewable energy sources constitute, for the moment, the only indigenous source of energy able to contribute significantly to reducing the country's dependence on imported energy. |
http://www.financialmirror.com/News/Business_and_Finance/23484
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The Minister referred to two of the most successful governmental measures, the first being the government’s initiative for the installation of 65 photovoltaic systems in public schools, governmental buildings and army camps, that resulted in increasing the countries capacity in the PV sector by 1.1ΜW The second are the three new support schemes that have been recently announced.
He said the public’s interest was such that from the very first week of operation of the support schemes around 30 applications were submitted for the installation of large PV systems of a total capacity of around 3MW, as well as one application for the installation of a 6MW Wind Park. |
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The Minister said the contribution of renewable energy Sources to the country’s energy needs last year was recorded to 5.2% compared to 2.5% in 2005.
However, Paschalides added, “there is still a long way to go. In order to promote the use of renewable sources, the government has already adopted a new Action Plan and a new Support Scheme, based on the experience gained during the first 6 years of operation of the first Action Plan and Support Scheme.” |
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significant aspirations, along with natural gas, an ability to produce energy under far greater demands, definitely related to water...
[url] http://famagusta-gazette.com/cyprus-aims-at-mw-from-solar-systems-in-energy-official-says-p12260-69.htm[/url]
...heat the sea(grey)water with solar pumps, by forcing it to run uphill, stations at the top, for pure water and solar gathering.
...infrastructure, so that on the way up pools are filled with saltwater suitable, and on the way down cleanwater from standpipes and hydrants.
...still, haven't figured the brackish tailing just like everyone else, but i figure at least its away from the sea; lol
anyway, for the record, this article records a small step forward... |
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...a small but promising project.
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| The programme looks to use solar energy to simultaneously produce electricity and desalinated water, with the potential of producing up to 5 million extra litres of fresh water a day, according to the British Science Museum’s description. |
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CSP is achieved with the use of strategically placed mirrors, which reflect and focus sunlight onto a central receiver. This transforms solar energy into thermal energy and is stored. This stored thermal energy transforms water into steam which subsequently produces electrical energy through steam turbines.
At the same time, the remaining energy is used to desalimate the water through evaporation. The efficiency of the model is a new development in this field, since the energy that would otherwise be wasted in a normal solar plant would now be used for desalination.
"The model's unique attribute to simultaneously produce water and electricity, and the facility it gives to prioritise on one of the two energy transformations according to demand, are regarded as breakthrough developments" said Georgios Zittis, one of the project's researchers. "Once the water becomes steam, we have the capacity to choose whether to proceed with the energy transformation or store the energy for the nightime" said Zittis. |
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| The programme, whose studies were conducted by The Cyprus Institute (CYI) in the village of Pentakomo, is funded by the European Commission, under the EU 7th Framework programme. Research started in November 2008 and its final reports were issued in June 2010. |
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| The state has committed to include costs for the full-scale implementation of the plant in its next budget. |
http://www.cyprus-mail.com/cyprus/revolutionary-energy-system-invented-cyprus/20111005 |
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Can Cyprus learn from Israel water stories?
17 October, 2011
Avraham Israeli, specialist in water and environmental technologies, was the main speaker at a joint presentation organised by the Embassy of Israel, the Cyprus-Israel Business Association and the Cyprus Chamber of Commerce and Industry, where he reviewed the water, environmental and renewable energy sectors of Israel and presented some of the innovative solutions Israeli companies have resorted to.
He also pointed out that Watec Israel 2011, to be held in Tel Aviv on November 15-17, offers a great opportunity for meeting, discussing and establishing research and business co-operation with relevant companies and institutions.
His presentation on "Israel’s Potential Contribution to Combat Climate Change and Water Crisis" by representatives from companies keen to learn more about the new technologies in water management, as well as officials from the Water Development Department, the Electricity Authority, the University of Cyprus, the Cyprus Institute, local sewerage boards and municipalities. |
http://www.financialmirror.com/news-details.php?nid=24734 |
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CONTINUING rainfall caused the Asprokremmos dam, the second largest on the island, to overflow yesterday.
With a capacity of 52.4 million cubic meters, Asprokremmos last filled back in 2004.
Reports said local residents were preparing to fire up their barbeques in celebration.
This has been one of the wettest Januaries of the last 30 years, with the rains particularly benefiting the Paphos district.
Three other reservoirs in Paphos – Pomos, Argaka and Arminou – had overflowed in recent days, as did Xyliatou, and Pomos along with another two larger reservoirs that of Tamassos and Klirou in the Nicosia district.
According to Kyriacos Kyrou, head of the Water Development Department, the dams of Evretou and Kannaviou - also in the Paphos district - are expected to overflow over the next five to 10 days.
Altogether, the island’s dams are now at 65 per cent of capacity.
Authorities have not ruled out an overflowing of the largest dam, Kouris; the last time this occurred was eight years ago.
Kyrou explained that the filling of the dams was due to a combination of the rainfall and the inflow of water in particular, which during the month of January is significant because the shorter duration of sunlight means less evaporation.
http://www.cyprus-mail.com/cyprus/asprokremmos-dam-overflows-first-time-seven-years/20120127
Asprokremmos dam overflows for first time in seven years |
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