Water Crisis In Turkey

Poor water management is also to blame.

Water crisis in turkey. Turkey says kurdish administration is to blame for water crisis in northeast syria friday august 28th 2020 by al masdar pro regime lebanese website turkey has hit back at claims that it is preventing water from reaching hassakeh instead blaming the autonomous administration for not providing electricity reports al masdar. Istanbul reuters turkey has started filling a huge hydroelectric dam on the tigris river a lawmaker and activists said despite protests that it will displace thousands of people and risks. Turkey says kurdish administration is to blame for water crisis in northeast syria. The scale is staggering.

The state owned agency said that all reports blaming turkey for cutting off the water to al hasakah are wrong claiming that they have details about the real perpetrators. Beirut lebanon 5 35 p m the turkish anadolu agency published a detailed explanation in which it said that the syrian government narrative about the water crisis in al hasakah is incorrect. Climate change is only part of the reason. Turkey s policy on water issues water is a precious resource which is gradually getting scarcer.

The impression that turkey has excess water derives from the fact that it is not at present in a position to fully utilise its water resources. These crises mainly revolved around turkey s water development project the southeastern anatolia project gap and the atatürk dam to be built as part of the implementation of gap. Today turkey utilises only 25 9bn m3 of its. 2 75 million syrians are registered in turkey around 3 5 per cent of the population.

When the influx began in 2011 ankara assumed a smaller number and shorter timeframe but with the war showing no signs of abating and europe s migration policies in disarray it is a reality that looks set to stay or expand. The visibly depleted water of the tigris river has raised fears that a water crisis is looming in iraq reuters turkey has decided to postpone filling a massive upstream dam amid rising concerns. Population growth industrialization and urbanization have resulted in a substantial increase in water consumption in the world. The construction of dams and water storage plants on the two rivers and their tributaries by turkey in particular and to a lesser extent by syria and iran have been the main cause for water shortage in iraq.

Turkey has a serious water issue.