2. Kouris dam at the district of Limassol 2006 Cyprus has 107 dams

3. Kouris Dam Jan 2007. The larger dam of Cyprus

4. In all hotels Guest rooms of Cyprus, a Visitor will see this logo of the Water Board of Cyprus. The water problem is so big in Cyprus that we have water cuts all over Cyprus and all over the year. Some summers the water flow may come to our premises for 1 or 2 times a week and only for a period of 12 hours This is essential because during the last decade Cyprus is suffering from water insufficiency.

5. Last year was the worst year concerning the water. Their was no rain at all. Most of our 107 dams were dry without a Single drop of water Our 2 desalination units didn’t produce enough Water for our needs. Hopefully by the end of 2011 2 more desalination Units will be build that will cover the water needs Of the Island.

6. From May 2008 and for six months in order to cover our water needs we IMPORT water from Greece with tankers Import water from Greece

7. Most people and some studies says that,yes Climate in Cyprus is changing. We don’t know if the above statement is true of false. What we do know, we the people of Cyprus, is the fact that in the resent years we are experiencing many strange phenomena :

8. I remember that at Troodos mountain with a almost 2000m ( actual 1951m) altitude, at 80’s the snow in winter was 2 to 2.5m. Cyprus at 80’s was a popular sky center. As you can seen at that time, Cyprus even post stamps with the related topic. Last year barely show. Phenomenon #1

9. Phenomenon #2 Is a common phenomenon to have dust comes from Sahara desert 2 to 4 times every Spring lasting 2 to 3 days every time

10. This year, 2009-2010 we had dust even at the winter. We all ready had 4 visits of dust from North Africa even from Middle East and Syria, at January and February. The duration of the dust was 4-6 days. This January we also experience another strange phenomenon. We had dust and rains at the some time.

11. Phenomenon #3 Tornadoes We do have tornadoes in Cyprus in winder but not at September.

12.  Long Term Temperatures for Nicosia of Cyprus from 1901 until today  Cyprus mean annual precipitation (mm) from 1901 until 2009  Mean annual max Temperature and precipitation of Limassol of the last three decade. For our European School Project “Protect don’t Neglect” we take and analyzed the following data :

13. It is clear when we analyzed the Nicosia mean annual temperature from 1901 until 2008 that there is a tent of the temperature to increase. As we can seen from the chart especially for the recent years the annual temperature is increasing, indicates that in our dates the weather is getting warmer.

14. Because we didn’t have data for Limassol from 1901 until today we used the above graph which had been taken from Price et al April 1999 on his study “Long term Change in diurnal temperature range in Cyprus| As we can seen from the graph the mean annual temperature in Cyprus is 1.3 oC higher since 1900.

16. It is obvious from the graph that the mean Annual temperature in Limassol year by year is increasing. Comparing the mean annual temperature of this decade with the previous decades we can see that the temperatures are higher

17. As we can see from the Precipitation graph of Limassol the rainfall in Limassol in the last decade is less compare w ith the previous decades

18. It is clear that the precipitation in the Island of Cyprus is year by year less

19. As we analyzed our data we found: 1. The mean annual temperatures of Limassol (but also Nicosia) are increasing. 2 As the temperature increase it seems that there is a correlation with the precipitation. As we see when temperature increasing the rain in Limassol and in Cyprus in general is decreasing.