Mazotos community takes desalination plant dispute to court

The Mazotos Community Council has gone to court seeking an injunction to suspend construction of a mobile desalination unit in the Petounta area, escalating a dispute with authorities over what residents say are inadequate environmental studies and serious risks to the local marine environment.

The council has already held one public protest. Its president, Giorgos Dimitriou, told Phileleftheros the community was not satisfied with the environmental studies carried out for the project. “We...