The Greek capital is one of the hottest and densely inhabited cities in Europe and the climate change of summer heat in the city is getting worse. Athens have therefore decided to use the ancient heritage to fight high temperatures and overloaded infrastructure. TASR informs about this on the basis of AFP report.
Among the parked cars in the suburbs of Athens are mounted by the city workers to the ancient stone well that It leads to an aqueduct built almost 2000 years ago.
Officials draw money from the European Union to restore Hadrian aqueduct, a 24 kilometer -long underground channel named after the Roman Emperor, who financed its construction in 140. Experts celebrate it as a “technical miracle”.
Last year, the public benefit company Eydap repeatedly warned the Athens that they had to save drinking water because stocks are shrinking.
Katerina Apostolopulus, who manages the project in the suburbs of Chanders, approximately ten kilometers from the center of Athens, she said that Water will not be of drinking quality, but will be used in the summer “for cleaning and irrigation of parks and gardens”, to save drinking water.
The well in the suburbs of Chalandri is more than 20 meters deep and is part of the network of 300 ancient wells. Eydap called the aqueduct “Archaeological and Engineering Miracle” And she called for a larger number of green areas in the city that hardly hit the climate crisis.
“It’s one of the most important ancient aqueducts in Europe,” said George Sachinis, Director of Eydap Strategy and Innovation.
Aqueduct helped to supply the city with water for hundreds of years, But after the Roman era he stopped using it. The Athens began to reuse it at the end of the 19th century. After the construction of two dams near the city, however, was again abandoned.
The Chanderri project aims to support green areas and improve the microclimate through water recycling while emphasize the archaeological and cultural importance of the whole monument.
