Icelanders race to repair pipelines after volcano damage • FRANCE 24 English
With the eruption of the syn nuclear crator over for now Icelandic authorities got to work to repair pipelines destroyed by the lava flows and restore hot water to 30,000 people in the ranis peninsula one of the operation that we were in we were building a new road on
Top of a quite new lava and uh we were building new hot water pipe uh 600 met long across uh across the across the lava uh we completed that yesterday and are now started to started to deliver hot water uh to the communities again Iceland has long harnessed its extensive
Volcanic systems for energy 90% of icelanders rely on geothermal power for heating a lack of hot water since supplies got disrupted has forced residents in the affected area to find backup Solutions despite the Speedy restoration Iceland’s prime minister Katherine yakob ‘s daughter says Iceland will need to rethink its energy
Strategy but we need to think about the future we have been using this area uh for geothermal heating and electricity production here for decades uh with the whole area being so uh eruptive we need to really uh map out how we see the next years and decades the eruption was the
Third since December at the volcano about 50 km south of rovic the Icelandic meteorological Institute says another eruption may be imminent in the coming days
A third volcanic eruption that wreaked havoc on Icelandic infrastructure came to an end Saturday, national authorities said, although hot water supplies damaged by the activity will take “several days” to repair.
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1 comment
The Icelandic are a smart people.
They will be able to manage this !