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[DT.]

Considering that TCs are free to walk across and visit the dams, they can see whether or not millions of cubic feet of water were or were not released. It would take a whole dam to do this much damage, and is obviously not likely that valuable water would have been wasted on such bullshit moves.

But that is beside the point, obviously the TC authorities have done nothing at all to manage the land. My grandfather's village is in the occupied area right in the path of the waters, two miles from Astromeritis. A network of ditches and canals, most of them my grandfather's work, protected this lowland area from flooding and channeled the water to the Sarafis river catchment. How come that nework did not work this time? Has the catchment ever been cleares since 1974?

Re ma eisai Nitjithkiotis? duh the name, didn't really compute.

My grandfather built Ayios Nikitas in Latsia 4-5 years ago.

[Tim Drayton]

Considering that TCs are free to walk across and visit the dams, they can see whether or not millions of cubic feet of water were or were not released. It would take a whole dam to do this much damage, and is obviously not likely that valuable water would have been wasted on such bullshit moves.

But that is beside the point, obviously the TC authorities have done nothing at all to manage the land. My grandfather's village is in the occupied area right in the path of the waters, two miles from Astromeritis. A network of ditches and canals, most of them my grandfather's work, protected this lowland area from flooding and channeled the water to the Sarafis river catchment. How come that nework did not work this time? Has the catchment ever been cleares since 1974?

Precisely, apart from any other consideration, it would have been scandalous at a time when the free areas of Cyprus are subject to water rationing.

[Nikitas]

Oops, it is the Serahis not Sarafis catchment. It is between Zodia and Morfou.

Maybe now that the area is flooded and needs a pile of money to put right the TCs will not have such strong objections to handing it back to its rightful owners!

[Nikitas]

DT, no the name does not come from the Cypriot side of the family, it is from the Dodekanisa side.

The ancestral village is Katokopia. My grandfather was the village engineer and had brought the water from Filia via a series of underground tunnels and surface channels to Katokopia. The work was a sort of local landmark of the area.

[Tim Drayton]

http://www.yeniduzen.com/template.asp?articleid=16468

Turkish Cypriot journalist Cenk Mutluyakalı has reproduced a detailed map showing the location of all the dams in Cyprus. This map shows that there are no dams anywhere within the drainage system leading down to Morphou.