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[Viewpoint]

Why dont you morons calms down, whats it to you anyway...dont you have enough problems rebuilding your economy than worrying about our water pipe line?

[repulsewarrior]

Why dont you morons calms down, whats it to you anyway...dont you have enough problems rebuilding your economy than worrying about our water pipe line?

...it should be worrying to you, but it isn't.

...it is worrying to us, but you tell us it shouldn't.

something to think about, i say.

[kurupetos]

Why dont you morons calms down, whats it to you anyway...dont you have enough problems rebuilding your economy than worrying about our water pipe line?

We don't have any problems VP. Don't go to bed with the socks on.

[Viewpoint]

Then forget it, if it arrives all well and good if not then life goes on.....I dont wear anything in bed let alone socks

[bill cobbett]

... so just three weeks to go before we get another announcement of a delay in the start of the cross-sea passage ... prob 'til next year...

How did the TCs ever get to turning the most fertile part of Cyprus into a desert? The water is there, the lazy, stupid oafs just don’t know how to grow anything.

Well a few thoughts ...

Look at the situation in the Free Areas where there has been massive investments in new dams, such as the huge Kouris, the Southern Conveyor scheme to bring water from the wetter west to dryer east and the desalination plants.

No such investment in the Occupied Areas. No new dams and an antiquated and leaky distribution system that loses as much water as it supplies. We know that in the past few months there are schemes underway to renew parts of this system and to re-cycle waste-water, and "trnc" won't publicise this bit... funded by the EU.

Speaking of EU money, some 25 Million Euros was wasted on attempts to build a de-sal plant on the northern coast in "trnc". A scheme which would have made a significant contribution to potable water supplies up there. A scheme that came to nothing cos "trnc" refused to allow a firm from the Free Areas and its experienced workers to work on the project.

Then, look at the terribly important matters of geology and water management...

"trnc" had the advantage of that very plentiful aquifer under the nice porous limestone of the Kyrenia mountains. Huge aquifer which runs from the west above Occupied Morphou, through Occupied Karavas and Occupied Lapithos, past Occupied Kyrenia and all the way up the Karpas. It and the cooler and wetter climate up there explain what was a relative green-ness.

Now, all aquifers require decent management. The northern aquifer has been over-exploited as any Tom, Dick and Mehmet could extract from it as soon as they got off the boat from Mersin... and they did, in their tens of thousands, doing what Anatolians do, which is to grow crops, to farm.

Adding to the over-abstraction has been the expansion of tourism and those Turkish Hotels with their big water requirements, all coming from the same aquifer.

Result is salt-water intrusion and a buggered aquifer from one end to the other.

So buggered that Kologassi is no longer grown commercially on any great scale in the Karpas... that's how bad things are.

So bad that "trnc" came up with the propaganda idea of the fictional "project of the century".

Fascinating stuff, bill. It just goes to show that there is no alternative to planned and sustainable water management. The pipe from Turkey, if it ever materialises, is just an admission of total failure. More of a political project than anything to do with the real water needs of the occupied areas. If the GCs were in charge of the north, the place would be flourishing and fertile. Not the wasteland the cretins in the north have created through their stupidity and incompetence.

Yes, water is fascinating stuff... don't we all love being in it, near it and on it...???

Got a lot of respect for the Water Dev Dept of the Republic... they do get things done in a very difficult climate.

... but they do need to tackle the problem of salt-water intrusion in the aquifers of the Free Areas. Some are in a poor state, particularly the Kochinochoria and Akrotiri ones. They do need to come up with a plan to replenish them.

Website at... http://www.moa.gov.cy/moa/wdd/wdd.nsf/b ... nDocument#

[Lordo]

which brings us to why the water pipeline is being built to suply 2 million tourists with water. you see it is called farward thinking.

how exactly do they fill the aquifars dear charluimmu. water seeps into the soil and fills them up. not enough rain empty aquifars. simple really but when it comes to terkish waters no limits see. uou know it makes sense.

[kurupetos]

Then forget it, if it arrives all well and good if not then life goes on.....I dont wear anything in bed let alone socks

It's a figure of speech. I guess you have to be a Cypriot to know its meaning.

[B25]

Eroglu is claiming the water will be here by March 2014.

http://cyprusnews.eu/philenews/1330017

The audacity of the people, steal the land, ethnic cleanse, murder, rape, pillage and then offer us water from out own lands.

F Hell.

[Maximus]

Yusuf Kanli has produced a marvelous piece of gibberish over at Hurriyet.

Here are some snippets of his delusions of grandeur.

Greek Cypriots might still consider getting Anatolian water as some sort of an engaging in a dependency relationship with Turkey.

Still, not only Turkish Cypriots but Greek Cypriots as well will soon realize that one pipeline was not enough and will start demanding the second, third, fourth, fifth or the sixth pipeline be constructed. The reservoirs and system constructed, as well as the resource of the stream, enable Turkey to construct and operate up to six pipelines.

With sufficient water this island will not be converted into a really green Cyprus but will as well turn into a land of peace and tranquility from the one of perennial tension and confrontation. Seeing the still under construction huge dam site and works on the connection pipelines, I could not stop tears pouring down from my eyes.

This bit made tears pour down from my eyes.

Similarly, if Greek Cypriots abandon their greed for a while and agree to the establishment of an ad hoc bi-communal committee and to sharing the natural gas riches off the island with their Turkish Cypriot partners and to finance a resolution to the 50-year-old Cyprus conflict with gas money, natural gas found off the island could turn into a very important tool for peace.

This is what he is really beating around the bush for. Is he for real of completely deluded?

Yet, while Turkish Cypriots were celebrating the anniversary of the 1974 Turkish intervention as liberation holiday in total denial of the atrocities Greek Cypriots committed from 1963 to 1974, Greek Cypriots politicians and the archbishop were touring military garrisons in southern areas, talking of revenging the Turkish landing… Before talking about peace perhaps there is need to lecture some in responsibility, frankness and merits of apology.

What a tool.

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/water- ... sCatID=425

[repulsewarrior]

...if i remember correctly, Christofias, as the President of Cyprus, did recognise the appalling horror of Greek Cypriot acts, and apologized for them, Talat (or should i say the deep state he was subject to) did not reciprocate.

...it seems that Erdogan is always right because he can look deep in his psyche, find his flaws and deflect them (and he is not very good at that, either).

...oil/gaz is a resource, and what is water, free? share oil? share water? six pipelines to turn on an off, where does, it, come from? big difference plunder to management, it is why the land is scarred in the north, while it is sold as a place of natural beauty, where the sea is blackened by filth (oil, shit, plastic; take your pick), and while their population is advertised as a highly educated people living in most modern cities, the garbage in their streets is institutionalised.