Written by Nikos Ioannidis
When the big “covid package” came to Greece, he called for “symbolic interventions” for the environment. Very large in their budget, projects that face environmental problems that are completely different. After all, our country has not registered anything, if it is not considered a logo to put electric cars on an island. The “brand” money was just lost.
At that time, we had publicly requested that the Municipality, in collaboration with other municipalities in the basin and (due to the responsibilities) the Department, submit a proposal for a comprehensive approach with the world’s leading experts on the issue of the lake and its entire irrigation system, in which we have only been doing damage in the last 70 years.
This project, in addition to protecting the basin and the lake, ensures at the same time water self-sufficiency and avoiding floods, and in addition to stimulating the area to above all, he would leave a unique knowledge for the management of water resources. in all of Epirus which has almost 40% of Greece’s waters and whines rudely about their mismanagement. The mayor, who was pardoned at the time, showed some interest, the mayor of Zitsa a little more intense, the Prime Minister’s office being the most intense, some telephone conferences were also organized, but it was ‘ matter away from the area of life-long and omniscient. The Governor stopped the process from the beginning.
In our article before the regional elections, we sounded the alarm and accused all the candidates and with full arguments, for their inadequacy, since they were in their plans for the whole of Epirus, that its most important resource absent and still absent today, the water. Billions of euros have passed and largely disappeared, because they not only did not bring the desired result (the “development”), but they further worsened our situation in everything, according to the complete data of international and European organizations. How dare they run for Regional Governors when Tsitsimeli between 1993 and 1996, without resources and without powers, had done miracles? (A whole book is needed, except to include the Ionian Way, or the literal rescue of our most important monuments with resources he created … for the industries to understand the benefits for them to recycle water.
How dare they run for office when there has never been a complaint about the use of regional programs with the payment of gold from the EU instead of starting with water, this is not to be found except for some “projects” like those who damaged it. our precious water system and some subsidies to… bottles?
And how does the omniscient and omniscient say that we run out of water in the place with half the water in Greece every summer (in an unknown final number of places. Always!), because there wasn’t enough water?
When the disaster happened again in Thessaly, we came back, showing again that it is necessary to give absolute priority to water at the level of the Province and the City. At the level of strategic planning and actions. Activities such as “sponging” urban areas, which is the most successful international practice, must be everyone’s priority! And it excludes floods, and saves a lot of water for domestic or agricultural use, and renews the beauty and daily life of the residents. Again the page does not move.
The other day we saw the images of the real structure in relation to us, but not “sponged” European cities, growing lakes and rivers. And we march armed only with the secret hope that every cyclone, typhoon, hurricane will not sit over our heads!
We return for the last time, speaking only to the Mayor, who shows that he does not measure the political cost with the moves he made or said he will make next to the a lake
Sponge or Ruin! Sooner or later this will become the norm! Let’s not wait for the Disaster to come first!
And in the case of Ioannina, any sponging includes the restoration of Pamvotida beach.
Let him see the restoration of the beach in this light, so that we do not have to see again the project that we always see, something that we pay to do us good and harm us.
We just hope he doesn’t turn out to be a… freak too, because we’ll all be pissed. Literally!..
