ΤΠΣ ΔΗΜΟΥ ΚΕΑΣ

Water security for Kea

I am a permanent resident of Kea, and Greek is not my native language.
In my opinion, details such as the minimum plot size for building development is irrelevant unless the issue of water security is fully addressed.
Water security is the limiting factor for development on Kea.
The document uses words such as “sustainable” as if calling it so, will make it so.
At the meeting, the speaker said that Kea was lucky compared to other Cycladic islands, because we had 10 years of water supply.
WHAT!!
I see many empty luxury houses around Kea, often with swimming pools. The owners are elsewhere, because they do not live on the island. If they lived here permanently they would know what a scarce and precious resource our water is.
We live on the island, some making a living, perhaps raising a family and developing a family farm for a livelihood and to pass to the next generation.
Without a secure water supply, this dream will die.
The history of Syros and its abuse of its natural water seems to have been forgotten by Government .
Electrical powered desalination is not is not a solution.
This is a link which explains the penalty that Syros suffers.
https://www.intechopen.com/chapters/56175

Tell us what is really known about our underground water supply, instead of making unsubstantiated opinions that we are lucky, and we have ten years water supply.
Are there multiple aquifers on the island?
What is their salinity profile?
What proportion is recharge or fossil aquifer?
What are the flow rates from from season to season in locations around the island??
How much are private wells taking for extravagant gardens which don’t belong in the Cyclades?

There are many other questions to be answered before attempting to draft a water management plan, let alone a tourist and urban development plan.
The prohibition of swimming pools in all future building, private or commercial, would be a brave move for the Municipality. Doing so would show a real commitment to protecting all the resources of Kea. That is, our water, and all it provides to the farmers, forests and animals of the island.
The commercial benefit is that it would greatly increase the desirability and value of existing properties, both commercial and private, and would also allow current tourist properties with a pool to charge more to visitors than their future competitors, who would otherwise have newer and possibly more desirable properties.
Article on swimming pools in Cyclades
https://www.lifo.gr/stiles/optiki-gonia/oi-paranomes-pisines-ton-kykladon-kai-ligosto-nero-poy-ehei-apomeinei
One day Kea will have to stop development.
There is a limit to growth.
Why not now?

I call upon the authors of the document to tell us everything they know as fact, not opinion, about the state of our aquifers, whose health is the premise upon which any future development is based, and to address this issue with full consultation with all stakeholders before any final release .
I call upon the Municipality to act toward the enforced prohibition of swimming pools in future commercial and private building developments.