Quality and Purification of Water

The quality of water in Greece is very bad and the availability of water is also a problem. Most of the water in Greece is tainted and cannot be used for drinking. There were ways in which drinkable water was brought to the people. Fresh wells, pools, cisterns, mountain springs and aqueducts were some of these ways. Today in Greece they have to import water from other countries and use the cistern method of catching rain-water. Greece imports water that is shipped in huge plastic containers, called Dracones, which each hold approximately 500 to 1,000 tons of water and is very expensive. The average rainfall in Greece per year is fifteen inches (see under climate; this obviously doesn't supply enough water for the country's population. This rain-water is tainted and not very drinkable, so there is a purification process by which the water is cured. Greece uses simple forms of distillation to obtain drinkable water. The Greeks rely heavily on the use of solar energy. They use the sun because it is a whole lot cheaper than all of the machinary available for the same process. There are not many people in Greece, as compared to the United States, so Greece chose to use the more simple methods based on money and necessity.

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