| Abstract |
The Greek Island of Milos is constantly facing a very serious drinking water scarcity problem. Some 5,000 permanent inhabitants, and about 85,000 tourists visit the island in the summer months. Both, water demand and the number of tourists increase annually. GSDP with the objective of improving the water supplies on the island concluded in a sustainable solution that is to desalinate seawater by the means of an innovative low enthalpy geothermal energy driven desalination plant. The Milos project, funded by the EU DG TREN Contract NNE5-1999-0041, is innovative and very attractive from a technological perspective. Only a small proportion of the geothermal utilisation schemes applied in a worldwide scale up today are combining different technologies in such energy efficient and cost-effective way. The unit will comprise of: |