TEMA Foundation pays attention to the importance of forest and water assets

Karapınar, General Director of TEMA Foundation, conflict that the world will pass 9 billion in 2050: “From 2025, more than 1.8 billion people will be exposed to water scarcity. 71% of water consumption in the world are realized in agriculture sector in Turkey. Up to 2050, 10% in Fırat-Dicle Basin, 37% in Mediterranean Regions and 37% in Konya Basin can be reduced by 70%. In 1995, in the area of 253 million hectares in the world, there was 290 million hectares. In 2025, it is expected to reach 330 million hectara of the area of irrigation agriculture. With increased irrigation agriculture, the amount of water required by 2050 will increase by 19 percent.

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Karapınar, due to climate change, where the climate control in Turkey is accessible and the frequency and density of droughts were drawn. "The radioactivity of the influence of the water plants of the climate change in Turkey is very high. The risk of water scarcity in both agriculture, food, pot and our cities are replaced by snacks.. In this field, climate change effects need to be urgently difficulties in compliance with the impact of work.

]] undertaking to water assets in Turkey

Karapınar said that TEMA Foundation for the World Water Day of this year ]] The Threats Map for Turkish Water Assets]]]: “We did a very important study with our invitation of the province this year. We tried to detect our water plants under the obstacles and drying in Turkey. The presence of 59 separated water from 33 provinces was reported to us. 35 of these threats to the nature of the water presence; 22 stream pollution, 12 lacquer and 1 reduction in biodiversity. 20 months of threat for the amount of water presence, 16 lakes are dry, 2 streams are dried and 2 pieces of underground waters have problems. From 4 threats to access the presence of water, 2 dams and HES, 2 of the other 2 have the problem of access to healthy drinking water.

There is no forest until a football field every addictive seconds[]

TEMA Foundation General Manager Karapınar has lost 3% of the total forestry area between 1990-2015 in the world, in the last five years there was no annual 5,8 million hectar natural forest area, expanded the forest destruction in low-income countries in the most tropical and semi-tropic regions. "This is not a football field for you per second. Forests are not only a tree community, but a ecosystem where there is a lot of living together, interaction between the environmental conditions. It means that thousands of living in the forest with trees to protect living spaces and lives. In Turkey, 48 percent of the hectar forest area of 21.5 million said. [

The guards balance stream regimes, improve water quality

Karapınar, which emphasizes the importance of its assets, comes from the turquoise where the fresh water in the world feeds 75% of hunger. Forests offer important ecological services for human health and well-being. 1.6 billion human forest areas in the world. Forests play an important role in the subjects such as developing people’s late terms and nutrition in the world. The negative effects of climate change such as drought, fires, forest-freeization of their words by changing the forest ecosystems, causing social and economic changes.

] Water and forest assets should be protected and developed]

“ As the META Foundation, we emphasize that human beings, water and forest assets should work before protection and then development,” said Karapınar, “We have over 40 legal regulations on water in Turkey. It is necessary to see that a Water Act is necessary to ensure the pool of our water presence. We pay attention to the importance of removing a Water Act that will protect the benefit of superior ecosystem in Turkey. On the other hand, the sensitivity required for forest areas is shown, we want to observe nature. [[