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The spring that never ran dry runs dry
August 2025 Proven
In August 2025 the local press reported that the spring of Lerna "gives not a drop of water". The pumps that supply Nafplio and Argos with drinking water stopped.
Read the full story: From spring to pump: how the water of Lerna made Myloi
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Sources
- Αργολικές Ειδήσεις, 6 August 2025
Also in this period
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2003
Argos gets drinking water from Lerna
Around 2003 Argos also began to take drinking water from the springs at Myloi, about 500 m³ an hour through a pipeline of 10 km. One source gives 2005 instead.
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2008
The spring weakens in summer
In the summer of 2008 the spring of Lerna gave less than 400 m³ an hour, a fraction of its old flow of around a thousand litres a second.
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2009
Some 570 boreholes around the springs
In 2009 the geologist P. Ntontos wrote that the shared irrigation networks of Kefalari and Myloi had been neglected and were largely out of use. In the Myloi–Skafidaki–Kefalari area almost everything was now watered from…
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24 April 2013
A water plan to protect the spring
The river basin management plan for the Eastern Peloponnese (ΦΕΚ 1004/Β/24-4-2013) proposed housing the scattered pumps at the Lerna spring inside the 1960 pumping station and moving the cemetery that lies above the…