Filenews 13 December 2024 - by Dora Christodoulou
Five days after the devastating fire at the Pafos Desalination Plant, the competent authorities deemed it safe for the crews to start investigating the exact circumstances that caused the fire that destroyed the premises.
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.
In parallel with the investigations, plans are continuing 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.
