Filenews 14 December 2024 - by Dora Christodoulou
A week after the devastating fire at the Paphos Desalination Plant, the competent authorities have now made it official that the fire broke out accidentally and was due to a short circuit in the electrical installation of the building. This was announced today by the Police, pointing out that in the morning the examinations inside the area have been completed.
Members of the Police, the Fire Brigade, the Electromechanical Service, the Department of Labour Inspection and the Ministry of Agriculture entered the site yesterday and began collecting evidence and checks to formalize the cause of the fire.
Now, attention is turning to plans at political level to compensate for the significant losses caused by the destruction of the plant in terms of water balance. The unit destroyed by the fire contributed about 1/3 of the water needed by Pafos for its water supply, while in off-season periods, such as the one we are going through, this percentage became even higher, officials stressed. Now, plans and strategies are necessarily adjusted in order to avoid interruptions in the water supply of the city and district of Pafos, they said, with the obvious burden on other sources, such as dams and boreholes.
