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"We're not talking about one island here", says Alexandros Yfantis, the founder of Sychem, one of Greece's biggest desalination-plant manufacturers. Greece's Popular Islands Are Crowded - With Plastic Unwilling to allow tourist havens to run dry, the Greek government was on the hook year after year for millions of euros in island water fees, even as alternatives emerged, such as affordable desalination. A prefabricated desalination plant was taken to Patmos in 2010 and sat untouched for six years, according to the island's mayor. [Extracted from the article]

A letter to the editor is presented in response to a letter from Dimitrios Katsianos and Dimitrios Skrekas on the term "Western tuned" in rebetiko lyrics in the February 26, 2016 issue.

In this article, the author shares his experiences of leaving Greece in a bus. Topics discussed include experiences of his bus trip to Hungary, less costs for passenger of bus services as compared to rail services in Greece and specific reference of a book "Life and Fate" which the author read while bussing throughout Ukraine in winter.

A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience of working at the Mykonos Grace hotel in Greece as of mid-July 2015.

A letter to the editor is presented in response to an article about Mani, Greece by Tim Salmon in the February 5, 2015 issue.