The completion of the project for additional water supply to the town of Kilkis, implemented by the Municipal Enterprise for Water and Sewage of Kilkis, satisfied a long-term, major demand of the local inhabitants.

More specifically, the project involved providing water to Kilkis from the Stavrohori basin, through the construction of up-to-date, totally autonomous water pumping-stations, which operate parallel with, but independently of, the existing ones.  The completion of the project doubled the capacity of the installations, ensuring a continuous, unbroken flow of water to the inhabitants of Kilkis.

The project aimed to give a solution to the problems of drought faced by the inhabitants of Kilkis town, as for a number of years the amount of water available was limited and very often dangerously low. Until recently, the water supply to Kilkis was directly dependent on the water resources of the basin of the Galliko River and, indirectly, on the frequency of rainfall in the region and therefore on the amount of water concentrated in the particular basin. Thus, the pressure of the water supply to the town was reduced, especially in the summer months, and often subject to cuts.

The exemplary process of implementation of this project was crowned by an unexpected event, which was swiftly dealt with on completion of the project:  Unexpected weather conditions in June 2004, destroyed 70% of the water-supply installations of the Gallikos River, resulting in an immediate threat of cuts in the water-supply to all Kilkis inhabitants. In the space of a weekend, the water-supply project of the Stavrohori basin was completed and put into operation, thus ensuring an unbroken water-supply to the town.