As a result of the determinations and investigations made by Eskişehir Environmental Protection and Development Association (ESÇEVDER), Porsuk Stream, which is the longest branch of the Sakarya river, was dried from Beylikova before it could reach the Sakarya river of 448 km and thousands of fish were killed.
Considering the amount of precipitation that the region receives in the winter of 2021 and the occupancy rates of the dams on the Porsuk Stream, it is clear that the reason for the drying of the Porsuk Stream is not due to the lack of precipitation.
Previously, the drying of Porsuk Stream was detected, and thousands of fish deaths were detected. All these harm the ecosystem and threaten natural life.
The most important reason for the drying of one of the most important teas of Central Anatolia at a time when agricultural production was at its lowest is the wrong agriculture and irrigation policy.
It is essential for the protection of our country's most basic and indispensable resource, our water, to urgently switch to planned agriculture by considering the country's agricultural policy from scratch, to plan agricultural irrigation within this scope, to strictly control agricultural water consumption, to prevent illegal wells, to take precautions against wild irrigation of legal wells. Porsuk is Eskişehir's lifeblood. Its value must be known.
Until the Porsuk Stream originating from Kütahya / Gediz / Murat Mountain reaches Beylikova, the cultivation of agricultural products such as corn, beet, alfalfa and beet, which consumes a lot of water, should be tied to a quota in line with the interests of the country, not according to the demands of the free market. and should be strictly controlled.
Eskişehir Environment Association ( ESÇEVDER ) will continue to fight for the protection of the environment, not to pollute the water, not to cut the trees and not to destroy the olive groves, as it was before, and will continue to explain the missing mistakes and faults to the public.
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