The Xyliatou water dam is found built on the Elia river and has a volume capacity of 1.430.000 cubic metres of water. It is a rockfill dam that overflows every year, creating beautiful images with its waterfalls.

The dam’s area is one of the best biotopes due to its snake called Natrix Na...

In Cyprus dams have been constructed in nearly all the rivers, since low rainfall is a very regular phenomenon, thus reducing the problem. There are many big dams and dozens of smaller ones. One of the biggest dams is the one in Lefkara.

It is made of earth and has a height of 74 metres. ...

The Lympia waterdam is built on the Tremithos river, and it is found if we are travelling from Alampra towards the Mosfiloti village, through the old road of Nicosia to Limassol.

It is at a distance of 22 kilometres from Nicosia. It is a small dam and it is the third in a row that has bee...

The greatest dam of Cyprus, is the one in the Kouris river.  It has a height of 110 metres and a length of 550 metres, its volume capacity is 115,000,000 cubic metres, and it creates a lake of 3,6 squared kilometres.

It was being built for 4 years and a village and a church had to be...

On the 19th of April 2012, just after the dam’s overflow, that only happened 14 years after its inauguration, the Mukhtar of Kalavasos, Lefteris Foka announced “Seventeen million, four hundred thousand cubic metres of water, have sufficiently ensured irrigation of rural cultivation for the next f...

The earthen fence in Vyzakia, is found on the north side of the village and on the left side of the road that leads to the village of Agia Marina, of you are travelling from Vyzakia. It was constructed in 1994 and it had a volume capacity of 1.690.000 cubic metres of water. Fishing is prohibited ...

When the department of forests received the non fertile area where the National Forest park is found today, on their effort to create a big forest, it was necessary that they join two torrents, the Vathis (deep) and kalogeros (monk), and to gather water with an earthen fence in order to irrigate ...

The small dam in the Lefka township which is occupied by the Turkish forces, is built on the ‘road’ of the Setrachos river which traverses the Marathasa valley.

The river’s waters, were from the Ottoman empire, the ‘bone of contention’ between the residents of the villages that it crossed...

After the Turkish invasion and the displacement of 20000 people, a great problem on the waterworks system was created. Cyprus went on with the construction of dams and reservoirs in its different rivers.

One of these dams is that of Asprokremos, the second largest in the country after the...

The Germasogeia water dam attracts thousands of fishermen and is a good income source for the government.

In 2013 the use of this water was extended and the inexplicable pause of desalination stations in the country has been noticed, resulting to today’s small stock of water left. This wa...

The small dam of Tamassos which is situated on the right side of the road Psimolofou - Kampia, is built out of sand on the valley formed by the Pediaios river. The dam’s aim is to limit the vicious downstream of the river heading to Nicosia and to help enrich the underground waters of the area.