(ANSA-AFP) - LIDORIKI, SEP 3 - Record-breaking temperatures
and prolonged drought in Greece have exposed a sunken village in
Athens' main reservoir for the first time in 30 years. The
village of Kallio was submerged in the late 1970s when the
Mornos dam was built 200 kilometres (124 miles) west of the
capital, the artificial lake fed by the Mornos and Evinos
rivers. With lake levels down by 30 percent in recent months
according to state water operator EYDAP, the ruins of a school
and houses have reappeared. "The level of Lake Mornos has
dropped by 40 metres (131 feet)," said Yorgos Iosifidis, a
60-year-old pensioner who had to leave his home as a young man
along with the other villagers when the area was flooded.
(ANSA-AFP).
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