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Turkey to provide Cyprus 75 mln tons of water each year
Turkish Cyprus' Elal said it is planned to bring water to the island in 2013.
Sunday, 07 September 2008 14:02
World Bulletin / News Desk

Turkish Cyprus' the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources Durali Elal said that the project to bring water from Turkey, has now actively been put into practice for the first time and it is planned to bring water to the island in 2013, Observer Cyprus reported.

He stated "the physical works on the project have started. A total amount of 75 million tons of water will be brought to the island in a year, 35 million of it will be for drinking and allied uses and stored in Gecitkoy Reservoir whose capacity will be increased 10 times from 2.5 million to 25 million cubic metres."

Within this framework the geophysical works are being made at Gecitkoy dam in which the water will be stored said Elal and that bid works for pipe construction will be made in 2009, it will be implemented in 2010 and the water is planned to reach Cyprus at the end of 2013.

The Undersecretary stated that work on the distribution line planned to transfer the water from the dam to three regions and the work on the pipeline to bring the water from Turkey will be conducted in a parallel way.

Elal stated that the Alarko company is executing the geophysical works on the dam at Gecitkoy that will be completed in 1½ months and will reveal if there are structures in the ground of the dam that will affect the quality of the water. He also stated that the project works have started on the distribution lines needed to transfer the water from the dam to points of consumption.

The infrastructure projects for the land part of the project to bring the water from Turkey's Dragon River have been completed and researches on the pipelines needed to be built underwater were completed at the end of 2007. Works on preparations for the project are expected to be completed at the end of 2008.

New distribution lines will be installed from Gecitkoy Dam to the three regions stated Elal, with one of the lines being to Guzelyurt, the second will pass through Kyrenia and reach Tatlisu and the third one will be the Nicosia-Famagusta-Karpaz line.

[zan]

Not another Turkish invasion be Turkkan....

[Oracle]

... or are they just hoping they can secretly look for oil

[zan]

... or are they just hoping they can secretly look for oil

I thought they had already found....

[Oracle]

... or are they just hoping they can secretly look for oil

I thought they had already found....

They want to steal ours ....

[zan]

... or are they just hoping they can secretly look for oil

I thought they had already found....

They want to steal ours ....

They are going nowhere near the South...

[Nikitas]

Where on earth is Gecitkoy? Something tells me that the water project will be an excuse to refuse returning this area to its owners. One of those "investments" mentioned by Erdogan.

[zan]

Where on earth is Gecitkoy? Something tells me that the water project will be an excuse to refuse returning this area to its owners. One of those "investments" mentioned by Erdogan.

What if it is on government land Nikitas...

[Magnus]

Where on earth is Gecitkoy? Something tells me that the water project will be an excuse to refuse returning this area to its owners. One of those "investments" mentioned by Erdogan.

It's in Kyrenia. the Greek name for it is Panagra.

[humanist]

Nikitas, the Turks will find any excuse not to allow unification and I believe the international community, EU and United Nations will be setting precedence for gloabal injustice if they allow a plan to go through, that is not fair and just for all Cypriots.

Perhaps am a foolish intellectual but how can you have unifcation of a country if you don't allow all citizens their basic freedms of movement and how can you have unification and peace if a third country is refusing to allow all citizens of a countrey to benefit from investments.

We know Turkey is a racist fascist State and now I believe that the Turkish Cypriots are not any different. Personally Iam getting ready for voting rights in Cyprus and I am not going to go to a referendum vote untill all discrimination against the GC's on the Island have been dropped.