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Greece: crops submerged under water for nine months
Some denounce the lack of renovation on the dikes and canals around the village. Greece is in the sights of the European Commission for poor management of flood risk. Proceedings are underway before the Court of Justice.
(France 2)
Some denounce the lack of renovation on the dikes and canals around the village. Greece is in the sights of the European Commission for poor management of flood risk. Proceedings are underway before the Court of Justice.
Fruit trees, submerged over hundreds of meters in Kanalia (Greece). For Ioannis Tsiantos, almond producer, the fishing boat has replaced the tractor. His orchard has been flooded for nine months. “It’s painful. I couldn’t have imagined that.”, he confides. He does not know when he will be able to regain his land, inherited from his father. “We’re waiting for the water to go away. But it’s been months”, he laments. The water arrived in torrents in September.
Torrential rains have ravaged all of Thessaly, killing 17 people and causing billions of euros in damage. The area around Lake Karla (Greece) has been submerged. Nine months after the floods, it is still twice its size. The lake had been drained in the 1960s to create farmland. The family of Sotiris Dabegliotis benefited from this. Today, the water seems to have reclaimed its rights. At 43, this farmer had never seen floods of this magnitude. “We need a lasting solution to protect the fields from all these weather phenomena. Because the surrounding villages depend on agriculture”he said.
