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    October 14, 2026
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    October 14, 2026

    Arminou Dam

    Arminou rose to 62.7% (2.70 MCM, +0.4pp in two days), still the only Southern Conveyor dam rising, 20.9pp above last year's 41.8%.

    Total Capacity
    4.3 mln. m³
    Current Storage
    62.7%
    (2.7 mln. m³)
    vs Last Year
    +20.9%
    change
    Forecasted Restrictions
    Not Expected
    Since Oct 1
    0.2 mln. m³
    Built:
    1998
    Height:
    45 m
    River:
    Diarizos
    Type:
    Earthfill/Rockfill

    Storage Forecast
    Declining (4 years)

    Dry years (1 in 10)
    Median
    Wet years (1 in 10)
    Restriction Threshold (7%)
    Dry years (1 in 10)
    Forecasted Restrictions
    Not Expected
    Median
    Forecasted Restrictions
    Not Expected
    Wet years (1 in 10)
    Forecasted Restrictions
    Not Expected
    300 replays of past years' weather (since 1995) from today's level, with drawdown that grows with the water stored. The median is exceeded in half of them; 1 in 10 end below the dry line and 1 in 10 above the wet line. Cards show when storage drops below 7% capacity — the point where water restrictions typically begin.

    About the Dam

    The Arminou Dam impounds the Diarizos river in the Paphos hills of western Cyprus, near the village of Arminou. Completed in 1998, it is a hybrid earthfill-and-rockfill embankment 45 metres high with a capacity of 4.3 MCM (million cubic metres) — small by reservoir standards, and deliberately so.

    Arminou was never meant to be a big store of water. Its main job is diversion: the dam intercepts the flow of the Diarizos and sends it through a 14.5 km tunnel eastward into the Kouris reservoir, the largest in Cyprus and the head of the Southern Conveyor pipeline that supplies much of the island's south and east. In wet months the transfer runs almost continuously, which is why Kouris can receive far more water than its own three rivers deliver. Arminou is, in effect, the western intake of the whole Conveyor system.

    Alongside that role, the reservoir regulates the Diarizos itself, supporting irrigation for the villages and farmland of the valley downstream. Its setting — a green gorge on the southern flank of the Troodos mountains — has also made it a favourite stop on drives through the Paphos forest region.