Greece: Sifnos: Tourism, Overdevelopment and Desalination

Greece: Sifnos: Tourism, Overdevelopment and Desalination

An investigative report on the island of Sifnos, carried out by ThePressProject and funded by Journalismfund Europe, reveals that the inexorable demand for (and expectation of) swimming pools by tourists in a semi-arid island already lacking clean water that depends on oil-powered desalination, is only making matters worse and undermines tourism itself, along with the local environment and society. Details