After completing his meeting with the institutional bodies of Thessaly, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis met with representatives of the region’s farmers at the Maximos Mansion.

“The difficult work starts now; we will not abandon cotton,” the Prime Minister said earlier during his meeting with the institutional bodies of the region.

As the Prime Minister emphasized, the plan by Dutch specialists “exceeds 400 pages and constitutes the first comprehensive effort to manage the issue of water resources in Thessaly,” adding that among other things, “it includes the way in which water resources will be managed comprehensively, the impacts it will have on agricultural production.”

According to Kyriakos Mitsotakis, “more than 40 scientists from 8 specialties worked on the master plan, dedicating more than 15,000 hours to map the affected areas and propose the best solutions. This work was done in the field and not in the office.”

“We should view the study through the scientific prism that pervades it. It is not a panacea but provides clear directions. It is a roadmap that we can agree on to have the best possible cooperation between the government, local authorities, and involved entities to make a drastic intervention in Thessaly and turn the major disaster of Storm Daniel into an opportunity,” added the Prime Minister.

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Kyriakos Mitsotakis made a special mention of “the dimension given by the study on the issue of underground water resources in Thessaly: ‘We did not have to wait for CERN to realize that the water resources of Thessaly are being depleted. This does not mean, under any circumstances, because I saw the statements of the Regional Governor that we must abandon cotton tomorrow and go for drastic interventions restructuring crops in Thessaly. Nor did the study propose such a thing. It would be very unfair from all this analytical work that has been done to focus our attention only on this dimension. So, I clarify from the outset that there is no such issue.'”

“However, we must take measures so that the damage caused by the lack of water resources after years is not irreversible,” concluded the Prime Minister, who emphasized to his interlocutors that “the difficult work now begins.”