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[Big Al]

Within 2 years the north will have more water than it knows what to do with, perhaps we can drive the GC's out of cyprus through drought, if there's no water to drink in the south they cant survive!!!
Just kidding, the whole islands water issues can be resolved through this initiative......
Article taken from Today's Zaman online...

Turkey announces plan to supply water to Turkish Cyprus
By the year 2010 the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (KKTC) may see the end to the water shortages that currently plague it, thanks to a project aimed at supplying water from the Anamur River in the southern township of the same name.


The project is the brainchild of Bülent Ecevit, the late former prime minister who was at the helm during Turkey's 1974 military intervention in Cyprus, but Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will be the one making Ecevit's dream come true. Erdoğan announced during a visit to the island on Sunday for the 34th anniversary of the military intervention the good news that Turkey will be supplying the KKTC with water. However, the prime minister did not give further details on the specifics of the project.
Yesterday, visiting KKTC Environment and Natural Resources Minister Mustafa Gökmen met with Environment Minister Veysel Eroğlu to discuss the project Erdoğan mentioned. This meeting was taken by analysts as a sign of Erdoğan's determination to keep his promise to Turkish Cypriots -- the premier himself invited Minister Gökmen to Ankara.

The Anamur-Cyprus water supply project was on top of the agenda during the two ministers' talks. The project will bring water from a dam to be built on the Anamur River and pump the water from there to the Turkish Cypriot coastal city of Girne through a 78-kilometer pipeline, to run 250 meters below the sea. A water treatment facility to be set up near the Turkish side of the capital Nicosia (Lefkoşa) will treat nearly 15 million cubic meters for use as drinking water by Turkish Cypriots.

The remaining 60 million cubic meters will be used for the irrigation of the Meserya Plain. In 2008 Cyprus has seen severe drought, with the Meserya Plain yielding no crops whatsoever. With this project it is hoped the region will re reopened to agriculture via irrigation by 2010.

The first initiative to bring water to Cyprus was taken in 1998 when the State Waterworks Authority (DSİ) prepared a feasibility project upon an order by Ecevit's government. However, the project was shelved when economic crisis struck early in the new millennium. Officials have restarted the project and if everything goes according to schedule, a tender will be opened as early as the end of this year. The project to bring water to Cyprus from the Anamur River is expected to be completed in 27 months and cost around $9.5 million.

Extending a submarine power line and natural gas pipeline to Cyprus is another planned project. Environment Ministry officials say they seek to have all parts of the project finished by 2023, the Turkish Republic's 100th anniversary.

[DT.]

Your education in Cypriot proverbs continues.

Ο πελλος εποτζοιμιθην τζαι εθωρεν πελλον ωραμα.

"The fool fell asleep and dreamt of foolish dreams"

[halil]

Your education in Cypriot proverbs continues.

Ο πελλος εποτζοιμιθην τζαι εθωρεν πελλον ωραμα.

"The fool fell asleep and dreamt of foolish dreams"

to achive anything first you must dream it . like your dreams DT .
don't you

[DT.]

Your education in Cypriot proverbs continues.

Ο πελλος εποτζοιμιθην τζαι εθωρεν πελλον ωραμα.

"The fool fell asleep and dreamt of foolish dreams"

to achive anything first you must dream it . like your dreams DT .
don't you

Με τον νουν του καμνει πα.ι.ραμι

He's having a festival in his head

[halil]

Your education in Cypriot proverbs continues.

Ο πελλος εποτζοιμιθην τζαι εθωρεν πελλον ωραμα.

"The fool fell asleep and dreamt of foolish dreams"

to achive anything first you must dream it . like your dreams DT .
don't you

Με τον νουν του καμνει πα.ι.ραμι

He's having a festival in his head

what kind of festival ?
Harem .....
wine ......
dreams dreams .....ahh .... if they becomes real

[iceman]

This water project is nothing more than a fairy tale..
I am fed up of listening to fairy tales since 1974...
Our problems in Cyprus are for real and require real solutions.

[Kikapu]

Only a $9.5 million dollars for this project.............really.??

That seems like peanuts for such project. Perhaps they meant £9.5 Billion Dollars, since in Turkish, Million and Billion sounds very close when spoken.

I'm sure water from the north and Oil from the south will be a good combination of "leveling the playing field" in helping each other, assuming there is no settlement first.

[DT.]

This water project is nothing more than a fairy tale..
I am fed up of listening to fairy tales since 1974...
Our problems in Cyprus are for real and require real solutions.

You haven't seen fairytales till you've experienced the "Ocean Tankers" story.

It involves an imbecile Agriculture Minister, a rich shipowning Cypriot, Mr 10% Katsourides and Omonoia FC who received 750,000EUR as sponsorship for this deal to got through. (it happens to be the AKEL team)

[Paphitis]

This water project is nothing more than a fairy tale..
I am fed up of listening to fairy tales since 1974...
Our problems in Cyprus are for real and require real solutions.

You haven't seen fairytales till you've experienced the "Ocean Tankers" story.

It involves an imbecile Agriculture Minister, a rich shipowning Cypriot, Mr 10% Katsourides and Omonoia FC who received 750,000EUR as sponsorship for this deal to got through. (it happens to be the AKEL team)

Quite frankly, this does not surprise me. President X is to be congratulated for his foreign diplomacy as he has done an excellent job so far, but in time Cypriots will discover that his Government will be the most corrupt in Cypriot history.

Recently, President X sent Andros Kypriannou on a tour of Australia. Andros Kypriannou, a remarkable politician as far as I am concerned was unapproachable unless you were active Communist. Also, President X only allowed a known low life to host Andros. How can you take them seriously when they come to Australia and hang around a known wife basher and a property developer that is responsible for dividing the Hellenic Community. If you hang around clowns, you become a .....

You should start a thread about this debacle. Nepotism must always be exposed otherwise we will never learn and will continue being naive.

[halil]

on my way going home most of the trees are started to die .
big disaster is waiting us . we are going to be desert isand .
we must try to PURIFIED SEAWATER projects more .there was on news yesterday .The Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources has announced that purified seawater is being provided to the Topcukoy village (Agios Andronikos).
The Ministry said work to provide water from the Bafra Sea Water Purification Facility to the hotels in Bafra Region and the surrounding area is still continuing within the framework of a project launched earlier.
Purified water has been supplied to the Yarkoy village since the 16th June as a first step of the project.

also i knew some hotels are doing same jobs in kyreania .

it will be less risky than bringing water from under the sea and it will coast less but i am agree in one way we must have a gas supply via pipes under the sea .we must stop using fuel oil for our electric city productiones.also we must start to use solar and wind energy for alternative solutions to gas and oil.