"Bos hopes"

WWF-Turkey, at 2 February World Sulak Tours Day, is lensing water transfer projects from, which are entered with awesome dreams and great hopes to meet the growing water demand. Water transfer projects between, which are ignored by social, economic and ecological effects, are often resulted by links on the front of better solutions. WWF-Turkey Goal to create a vision for the problem and lead to decision.

Although water transfer are seen as a solution to meet the demand of water, push leads to very important economic, social and environmental problem. WWF-Turkey, defending that every day needs to be resolved in itself, states that a threat is covered by the obstacles must be used. Blue Tunnel, Addition to “100-year dream” in Turkey, Experiments the fact of water transfer between Thursdays, and aimed at WWF-Turkey on 23 December 2011. By using the “Pipedreams? Interbasin Water Transfers and Water Shortages report in the world and Turkey from the classrooms from the water transfer projects. This is very important social and environmental costs.

The water transfer between the rivers are caused by many physical and biological changes as the connection between river systems. In order to achieve hydroelectric energy and to support agricultural production, water transfer projects between; assessment of alternatives in the plan stage, to take into account the effects of climate change, and prevent better solutions from transportation to the local people.

In the world, 364 water transfer project is replaced by 400 billion m3 water per year. When it comes to 2020, this figure is estimated to take 800 billion m3. WWF-Turkey Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Bayar moved from one to another by adding longer distances to water transfers, which is reportedly limited to river scale. Just like dam making hits the last 50 years of stamp, water transfer between shavings is also seen as a quick and effective solution in meeting the demand of water needed to relax the economy, find the help of failure and feed the growing population. short, medium and long-term effects of project will create in the water area and the skyline. Water transfer projects between the obstacles are investments that are more complex than solving problems with water,” said. [[

WWF-Turkey General Manager Tolga Baştak “The most recent Blue Tunnel Project in our country and will be taken from the Eastern Mediterranean Basin in Konya Indoor Basin with water from 223.000 hectar area to prevent the watering of the fountains from social and environmental care. These projects can lead to salting, coastline and transfer of invasion. types It can give very large ecological costs to aquatic creation and protected areas under threat. Thus, when dealing with such projects, the principle determined by the World Dams Commission should be taken into consideration, a thorough Need Analysis and Evaluation of Alternatives; the water problem should be accompanied by an integrated planning to cover the entire river while alternatives are evaluated, and first of the problem of each day should be born in itself," said.

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