Konya Metropolitan Municipality continues its maintenance and repair works and distribution of drinking water with tankers since the first day of the earthquake in order to solve the water problem of Hatay, and now it is building street fountains at 17 points of the city. Mayor of Konya Metropolitan Municipality Uğur İbrahim Altay said, “While we continue our efforts to restore Hatay's infrastructure; By activating the drinking water network in Antakya district, we started to place street fountains to meet the water needs of our citizens.
Konya Metropolitan Municipality continues its efforts at full speed to restore the water and sewerage infrastructure of Hatay, where it has mobilized all its resources since the first moment of the earthquake.
In order to meet the water needs of the people in the region right after the earthquake, the Konya Metropolitan Municipality KOSKİ General Directorate, which firstly detected the mains sources of the city and malfunctions and malfunctions together with the HATSU teams, and produced solutions to these, now they are located in various places in the Antakya district of Hatay, to the freshwater fountains in Konya. similar street fountains.
A TOTAL OF 17 STREET FOUNTAINS WILL BE BUILT
Mayor of Konya Metropolitan Municipality Uğur İbrahim Altay said, “As Konya Metropolitan Municipality, we started to provide water service with our freshwater vehicles due to the destructions in the region while intervening in the infrastructure at first. Then, we placed 1-ton fiber tanks from Konya where needed in the city. We have met the water needs of our citizens and teams with the tanks that are periodically filled. As we continue our efforts to restore the city's infrastructure; By activating the drinking water network in Antakya district, we started to place street fountains to meet the water needs of our citizens. We started our assembly in front of Şükrü Balcı Street Antakya Asri Cemetery. In the first phase, 8 of them were completed. We will build street fountains at the 17 points we have determined. Every fountain we built was recorded in the KOSKİ Geographical Information System.
Stating that maintenance, repair and troubleshooting works in Hatay's water network lines, as well as valve operations and disinfection services, continue, Mayor Altay added that they are on 7/24 to facilitate access to water for earthquake-affected families and employees in the region.