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[Expatkiwi]

Reading about the lack of water in the south, and the need for Greece to ship in additional water makes me wonder about the water supply in the North. Logically, given the proximity of the island to Turkey, Turkey would be helping the north with any water woes that they may have.
Anyway, my question is: if the north has surplus water, would they offer it to the south, and would the south accept it?

[Bill]

I've heard that the north is having just the same problems as the south although I can't confirm this .

It would be a really viable venture for water to be piped across from Turkey and then perhaps some could find it's way to the south .

It would certainly help with intercommunal relations between the two .

I'm surprised that Turkey if they really thought anything about their Turkish Cypriot brothers haven't already done this .

Or are they waiting for more EU money

Bill

[Oracle]

Reading about the lack of water in the south, and the need for Greece to ship in additional water makes me wonder about the water supply in the North. Logically, given the proximity of the island to Turkey, Turkey would be helping the north with any water woes that they may have.
Anyway, my question is: if the north has surplus water, would they offer it to the south, and would the south accept it?

More straightforward is to just give us our land back.

If we had not lost 40% of it to just 18% of the population, we perhaps would not have had such a water-supply problem.

We could have utilised the resources in the north much more profitably instead of seeing them languishing in the hands of 3rd world ineptitude.

[ttoli]

Reading about the lack of water in the south, and the need for Greece to ship in additional water makes me wonder about the water supply in the North. Logically, given the proximity of the island to Turkey, Turkey would be helping the north with any water woes that they may have.
Anyway, my question is: if the north has surplus water, would they offer it to the south, and would the south accept it?

More straightforward is to just give us our land back.

If we had not lost 40% of it to just 18% of the population, we perhaps would not have had such a water-supply problem.

We could have utilised the resources in the north much more profitably instead of seeing them languishing in the hands of 3rd world ineptitude.

Yet again its the fault of the Turks.........................Yawn.

[Oracle]

Reading about the lack of water in the south, and the need for Greece to ship in additional water makes me wonder about the water supply in the North. Logically, given the proximity of the island to Turkey, Turkey would be helping the north with any water woes that they may have.
Anyway, my question is: if the north has surplus water, would they offer it to the south, and would the south accept it?

More straightforward is to just give us our land back.

If we had not lost 40% of it to just 18% of the population, we perhaps would not have had such a water-supply problem.

We could have utilised the resources in the north much more profitably instead of seeing them languishing in the hands of 3rd world ineptitude.

Yet again its the fault of the Turks.........................Yawn.

Yes of course! .... Buzz off back to your over-sized country greedy expansionists and stop demanding too much of the world's resources for the ZILCH you have contributed so far!

[Expatkiwi]

I see you're back as well, Oracle. Still spouting your anti-Turkish venom as well... I was asking about water in this thread. Nothing more.

[ttoli]

Reading about the lack of water in the south, and the need for Greece to ship in additional water makes me wonder about the water supply in the North. Logically, given the proximity of the island to Turkey, Turkey would be helping the north with any water woes that they may have.
Anyway, my question is: if the north has surplus water, would they offer it to the south, and would the south accept it?

More straightforward is to just give us our land back.

If we had not lost 40% of it to just 18% of the population, we perhaps would not have had such a water-supply problem.

We could have utilised the resources in the north much more profitably instead of seeing them languishing in the hands of 3rd world ineptitude.

Yet again its the fault of the Turks.........................Yawn.

Yes of course! .... Buzz off back to your over-sized country greedy expansionists and stop demanding too much of the world's resources for the ZILCH you have contributed so far!

Tell me, how come 1) that the water parks are still operating despite the water shortage and 2) during the recent forest fires the planes were scooping water from the dams as opposed to the sea to quench the flames?????

[Nikitas]

Water has been a perennial problem on the island since antiquity.

As for pipe dreams of piping water from Turkey just think of this: an Israeli company is having problems making a pipeline of 1200 meters. Now think of a pipeline of 50 000 meters!

The water problem can be solved with solar powered desalination, sensible conservation and reuse of grey water. Depending on any foreign country for a vital resource like water is sheer madness for an independent nation.

[Oracle]

All I can say is that unless you Turks have a constructive contribution - which usually entails carrying out the requests of the interested party and not imposing your views ... then kindly just give us the rest of our country back and don't sit there preaching and eulogising because you have cut off > 40% of our island resources, and now we have another problem to solve.

[tessintrnc]

Desalination plants are the only way forward - the underwater pipe is (so far anyway) a pipe DREAM !!!