“Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company”, in collaboration with Global Water Partnership Mediterranean, launches an innovative program for the collection of rain water in the Cyclades islands. The program is proposed to be implemented by the installation of water-collectors and the rational management of rain water for multiple purposes.
The idea is based on a traditional technology of collecting rain water in flat roofs or other open flat surfaces by using simple rain-water tanks, cisterns and underground water barriers. These techniques have their origins in practices of ancient civilizations of Greece and Northern Africa, while they still constitute sources of drinkable water in rural areas.
The program is launced within the framework of the Company’s corporate social responsibility program “Mission for Water”, which has started since 2006 and aims at fighting the problem of water shortage.
The program “Mission for Water” began in 2006 and was focused on the problem of water shortage. The program launched a series of information campaigns addressed mainly to local communities and schools, through donations, conferences and the use of mass-media, the internet and the distribution of brochures.

The municipality of Amaroussion participates in a European co-funded project named PRO-EE- “Public Procurement Boosts Energy Efficiency”. The aim of the project is to provide guidance and technical support to municipal governments to improve the energy efficiency of the public sector, through energy-efficient procurement and overall public sector energy management. The municipality of Amaroussion has been realising energy investments in schools and other public buildings for substituting conventional fuels with natural gas. In addition, within the context of EU-funded projects, the municipality of Amaroussion implemented the installation of a photovoltaic system in selected municipal buildings. The municipality has joined the project EnerIn Town” (co-funded by the European Commission, IEE programme) with the status of a ‘user’ and it’s role lies in disposing seven municipal buildings for the placement of appropriate measuring instruments aiming at the continuous monitoring of energy consumption by the use of internet facilities for the parallel application of energy saving measures. Finally, the municipality has joined the project ‘INTERACTION’ with the status of a ‘user’ and it’s role lies in undertaking actions in order to identify and implement potential measures so as to reduce energy use in freight transportation by completing questionnaires and by participating in interviews and workshops and by taking actions towards the implementation of such energy measures with significant positive effect. In specific, the municipality will provide data on its fleet of garbage-trucks in order to contribute to the creation of a data-base which will include a series of proposed actions on energy saving i.e. energy efficient driving.