Greek city left high and dry

LARGE sections of the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki have been without water for a fifth day because of damage to an old pipeline.

The centre and northwestern parts of Greece’s secondlargest city have been without water since Tuesday, when a 40-year-old pipeline carrying water to the city from 50km away burst. Hundreds of thousands of people in the metropolitan area of 1.2 million have been affected.

Schools were forced to close and people flocked to public fountains to fill containers with water.