Water Scarcity Crisis Resurfaces: Sunken Village of Kallio in Mornos Reappears [Video]

The level in the Mornos lake, which supplies Athens’ water supply, has receded significantly. In the past two years, the level has receded more than 35 meters and another 18 or so in just the past year, according to residents.

In the village of Kallio Fokida, residents watch the lake sink rapidly every day. At the same time, the abandoned village buildings buried in the water are being revealed, and with them memories from the past.

In 1980 when the Mornu technical lake was completed the people who were there were forced to move to an altitude of 390 meters and create a new settlement. But most of them moved to Athens and other cities in the country. There, in the new settlement of Kallio, about 60 people remain to see and observe every day how their childhood memories, their belongings, everything they left behind, emerge from the waters of the lake.

The 80 houses …