From beneath the shrinking Lake Mornos in central Greece, the muddied remains of homes are reemerging nearly 45 years since the village that once stood here disappeared underwater.
After a winter of hardly any snow, a summer of punishing heatwaves and months of little rain and drought across much of Greece, the huge man-made lake that supplies water for nearly half the Greek population has dwindled to its lowest level in decades. “Day by day, the water goes down,” said Dimitris Giannopoulos, mayor of the broader Dorida municipality, who said nothing similar had been seen for 33 years.
” Giannopoulos gestures toward Mount Giona towering over the lake, which used to be snow-capped but saw none last winter, Greece’s warmest on record. On the lake’s receding rim, trees have taken on a yellowish hue. “They lack water. This has never happened before,” he said. Wells in the area are drying up and surrounding villages, which do not take water from the lake, suffered water cuts this summer, he said.
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