JimB wrote:Agree totally about not imposing additional quota's and levies on tourists. The operators would drop the country without a backwards glance.
Sorry Cyprus - but IMHO the water problem is of your own making.
Your politicians are afraid to make difficult / unpopular decisions and have consistently botched up the introduction of additional desalination plants.
Your building policies and greed have allowed uncontrolled and massive over development.
Your lack of infrastructure and investment in water treatment and collection has strained your systems to breaking point.
Cement production can't keep up with demand yet a large number of developments stand empty. Cement uses more water than any other construction method.
You scream blue murder at the planned golf course developments instead of working in partnership to get them to install a bigger desalination plant that could provide spare capacity at a substantially lower cost to the taxpayer.
The only reason your beaches get cleaned is because you value the 'blue flag' status that brings the money in. Off-season and up in the mountains the rubbish is knee deep (never seen so many discarded cooked ham packets .....).
The hunters dog's crap all over the place then are left to decompose when it's seasons end.
How many brits do you see with dog's off the lead?
How many brits keep their animals caged up outside attracting flies and maggots to their filth ridden cages and rotting bowl of left overs. Barking unchecked at all hours of the day and night?
Hire cars aren't fitted with cherry bomb exhausts and oversize sound systems. Safe bet then that these are local cars.
There's not that many expats in their late teens and 20's. Blue led lights and boom box's aren't exactly high on a middle aged or retired expat's shopping list.
The tourist industry is very likely going to save your hides in the long run.
Long live the lager lout!
Well said Jim ~ not so sure about the lager lout bit even though they are a important source if Cypriot income and sadly actively encouraged by the Cypriots them selves.
In actual fact tourism isn't the biggest income generator in Cyprus in the great scheme of things ~ financial dealings and development generate more income but that's for the select few.
Tourism without a doubt generates most of the income for the ordinary Cypriot ~ take away the tourist and watch the Cypriot economy die .
Sadly Cyprus is beginning to live on borrowed time.
Bill
Cyprus is an island - surrounded by water 
