Water Development Department
How much water Lefkara dam holds today, how it changed since yesterday and its history over the last years.
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Cyprus has no rivers that flow all year, so the island stores winter rain in dams. How full they are after the rainy season decides how much water there is for homes and farms through the long dry summer.
This page shows the stored volume of each government dam in million cubic metres (MCM), how full it is as a share of its capacity, and how that compares with the same month a year ago.
Source: Water Development Department (WDD), dam monitoring system.
Kouris, in the Limassol district, with a capacity of 115 million cubic metres. It holds more than a third of the total capacity of the island's government dams. Asprokremmos in Paphos is the second largest.
From the dam monitoring system of the Water Development Department of the Republic of Cyprus, which publishes the stored volume of each dam. Cyprus Atlas reads it several times a day.
Almost all inflow comes with the winter rains, from about November to March. Levels then fall steadily through the summer as water is supplied to towns and for irrigation.
Million cubic metres. One MCM is one billion litres of water.
No. Desalination plants on the coast supply a large share of the drinking water, which makes the towns less dependent on rainfall. The dams remain essential for irrigation and as a reserve.