Same engine as the hotel feasibility report, aimed at growers, co-ops, and agri-lenders: estimates a parcel's seasonal irrigation demand from published FAO crop coefficients and cross-references it against the same verified drought / irrigation-restriction record. No DEYA relationship required.
Irrigation water-risk
Irrigation — low risk
10,000 m³/season
≈ 3,500 m³ in the peak month · Olive grove · Agios Nikolaos (Plaka)
Findings
- No documented drought emergency or irrigation restriction for Agios Nikolaos (Plaka) in the public record. Absence of adverse evidence is not a guarantee of an irrigation allocation.
Cited sources
- [1] Dramatic finding: water shortage in summer from large hotels in a luxury Crete destination — DEYAN cannot guarantee 236.26 m³/day peak — TornosNews, 2025-12-22 https://www.tornosnews.gr/en/tornos/green-travel/54967-dramatic-finding-water-shortage-in-summer-from-large-hotels-in-a-luxury-destination-in-crete.html
- [2] Crete water crisis — Plaka hotel — Argophilia, 2025-12-29 https://www.argophilia.com/news/crete-water-crisis-plaka-hotel/247051/
- [3] Crop Evapotranspiration — crop water requirements (Kc × ET0); representative net irrigation requirements — FAO Irrigation & Drainage Paper 56 (Allen et al.) + FAO CROPWAT, 1998 provisional
Disclaimer — DRAFT, prototype
Based on publicly available drought/irrigation reporting and representative FAO crop water coefficients — not site-specific agronomy or an official irrigation allocation. Crop figures are provisional and must be confirmed against FAO CROPWAT for the local climate zone. This is a screening aid, not a guarantee of water availability or a substitute for an agronomist / the local irrigation authority (TOEB / DEYA).