The project has been blighted by delays, due to bad weather and rough conditions in the Mediterranean.
Posted on 12/14/2017 9:30:36 PM PST by SunkenCiv
The full switch-on of a pipeline pumping water from Turkey to Turkish-controlled northern Cyprus will take place on October 28.
Onder Sennaroglu, the official responsible for the project, confirmed the new date during meetings in Ankara.
The project has been blighted by delays, due to bad weather and rough conditions in the Mediterranean.
The grand opening of the multi-million euro project was supposed to take place last month, to coincide with the anniversary if the Turkish invasion of the island in 1974.
However, the Turkish Minister of Forestry and Water Affairs Veysel Eroglu, did conduct a ceremonial 'fitting' of a final component of the machinery last week.
Around 75 million cubic meters of water will be pumped from a dam in southern Turkey via a pipeline.
The project, which includes a water treatment plant and water tanks, will cost 1.6 billion Turkish liras (576.3 million dollars).
Turkish Cypriot officials say the project will be able to compensate for the projected water needs in northern Cyprus for the next 50 years, and the irrigation water will raise revenue in the farming sector.
Turkish plans to pump water to Cyprus nearly complete - TURKEY is expected to start pumping massive quantities of water to the occupied areas of Cyprus by the middle of July.
"It has become possible for 75 million cubic meters of water to annually be transferred from Turkey to Cyprus with pipelines 250 meters under the sea. Everything is completed. The water reached Cyprus. After that its distribution and administration will be carried out," said Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bulen Arinc.
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The project has been blighted by delays, due to bad weather and rough conditions in the Mediterranean.
Cyprus - Famagusta Gazette
Pipeline pumps first water to northern Cyprus from Turkey
October 09 2015 14:28:00
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/pipeline-pumps-first-water-to-northern-cyprus-from-turkey-89637
and then
Water war could leave Turkish Cyprus high and dry
Zulfikar Dogan January 11, 2016
https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/01/turkey-cyprus-water-row-threatens-peace-process.html
North’s water agreement to be signed in Ankara on Wednesday -- March 2nd, 2016 -- A view of a reservoir in Myrtoy that receives fresh water from Turkey via the water pipeline
Water Wars Loom In Middle East
Straits Times | March 17, 2005 | John R. Bradley
Posted on 03/17/2005 3:08:12 PM PST by srm913
http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/1365004/posts
Crosses one or more earthquake faults, yes?
When you describe a “massive” pipeline, the first thing you do is mention its diameter.
Good to see EU funds helping the illegal occupation of Northern Cypress.
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“Crosses one or more earthquake faults, yes?” Several and tectonic spreading center. As such this is not a problem as it is a floating suspension pipeline at depth but not on the ocean floor.
Considering the animosity between Greece and Turkey and their war over Cypress years ago what they really need to worry about is a Greek anchor behind a freighter. You could destroy it for just a few thousands of dollars.
It’s not Turkish controlled Cyprus, it’s Turkish occupied Cyprus. Big difference.
It's not Turkish occupied Cyprus, it's the Turkish Republic of North Cyprus. Nyah nyah.
I think that’s why they went with a tethered, level pipeline, it’ll ride out the shock wave.
It was good to see the turks invade in 1974 to stop the ongoing Greek atrocities against the Turkish minority. It was lucky for the EU that they hadn't brought Turkey in as a member, made it so easy to back the Greek side, then tie their own hands and make negotiations untenable by only recognizing one side as legitimate. Wish they'd treat Israel the way they've treated the Greek Cypriotes. As it is, the EU approved opened trade with the Turkish part of the island, and over time that will help reunify the island, although it's exactly like insisting that Hispaniola be "reunified".
It’s yuge.
No water wars involving Israel. the Israelis have become water independent. and acturally export water to the palestinians.
That’s right... Israel also is obligated to supply Jordan with water under the 1994 peace treaty, as Syria cut off part of Jordan’s water supply, part of the none-too-neighborly relationship the succession of Assad dictatorships have had with neighbors.
the bigger problem is that turkey cut off a lot of water to syria as they damned the euphrates river.
even if they bring back syria’s refugees —they return to parched land because the same drought that struck israel in 2000 also struck syria.
the solution is to look to spain’s plastic green houses. its a billion dollar business. they use desalinated seawater because greenhouses use water so efficiently that desalinated water is economic for greenhouses.
there is still a lot of brackish water under syria. that combined with euphrates water would supply sufficient for a greenhouse culture in syria and provde a living for 1-3 million returnees.
They damned the euphrates?!? Those bastards! ;^) That had nothing to do with Syria’s practices. Damascus has a long history as a settlement in part because of a spring that has been flowing and not known to fail for thousands of years, but the output is a fraction of what the city now needs (not even considering the war consequences, pop moves etc). Syria cut off all natural water flow into Jordan, and as one of the earlier links said, part of the reason the Golan won’t leave Israeli control is the Litani River. Even Turkey is not water-rich by world standards, but has only just begun to capture more of its freshwater runoff, for instance. The less of the river water running into the Med and Black Seas, the better managed their problems will be, and that will mean more dams, not fewer.
Whoops, I said Litani, wrong river, the tributaries into the Jordan were on my mind, and I’m not sure where I left it...
AINA mountain dry enough, AINA valley low enough...
The Water Crises in Turkey, Syria and Iraq
By Samreen Aamir Bari
http://www.pakistantoday.com.pk
Posted 2016-07-17 15:05 GMT
http://www.aina.org/news/20160717110523.htm
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