Bursa Metropolitan Municipality Council Water Commission has accelerated its efforts to prevent the city from experiencing water stress and water scarcity for the future. The Commission, which examines the consumption and treatment facilities in industrial zones as well as water resources, will present the report to the Metropolitan Municipality Council on the current water situation, consumption and the measures to be taken.
While the drought due to global warming and climate change has become one of the most important agenda items of the whole world, the Metropolitan Municipality, which has implemented all kinds of investments in order not to leave the people of Bursa without water even for a day, has, on the other hand, focused on the issue with all its aspects. While the Water Commission was established in the Metropolitan Municipality Council, the commission continues to work rapidly on Bursa's water potential, agriculture, industry and individual water use and the measures to be taken. DSI, the Ministry of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change, the General Directorate of Water Management, universities, BUSKI and the relevant academic chambers, the commission carried out the necessary field studies and examined the treatment plants in the industrial zones as well as the Doğancı and Nilüfer Dams. At the water management evaluation meeting held at the Metropolitan Municipality Council Hall, the work done so far was discussed. Mihrimah Kocabıyık, Head of the Parliamentary Water Commission, Head of the Research and Evaluation Department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, General Directorate of Water Management Yusuf Başaran, Deputy General Manager of BUSKİ Devrim İzgi, commission members and all parties to the issue attended the meeting chaired by the Metropolitan Municipality Secretary General Ulaş Akhan.
We need to use wisely
Evaluating the meeting, Yusuf Başaran, Head of Research and Evaluation Department of the General Directorate of Water Management of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, said that it is now imperative to use water more efficiently and rationally in Bursa and other regions of Turkey. Noting that drought has increased due to climate change and precipitation regimes have changed, Başaran said, “We need to use our water more efficiently and rationally in our homes, industry and agriculture so that we can pass it on to our future generations. Otherwise, if we continue to use it with these consumption habits, we will find it more difficult to reach water in a serious sense. Therefore, we need to change all usage habits together. I would like to thank the Metropolitan Municipality for organizing this meeting. I hope that we will develop our country with a more sustainable use of water, without a drought in the future," he said.
Let's not suffer from water stress
Mihrimah Kocabıyık, Head of the Metropolitan Municipality Council Water Commission, said, “What do we have in Bursa as a water potential? What are our drinking water sources? What do we need to do about our water resources in the next 2030, 2050 and a hundred-year projection? We discussed all of these. As a commission, we made investigations in Doğancı and the Nilüfer Dam. We examined good practice examples in Bursa Organized Industry and Demirtaş Organized Industrial Zones. We aim to reduce the amount of water use in Bursa even more, to ensure that the water is used efficiently, and to live prosperously without suffering and suffering from water stress. We are preparing a good report in this direction. When it is completed, we will share our report in the Parliament," he said.
a comfortable future
BUSKİ Deputy General Manager Devrim İzgi also stated that they have made all kinds of investments from reducing the leakage rates in water to protecting the existing resources and said, “We need to plan our future work today so that we do not experience water shortages in the future. Because climate change continues at a rapid pace today. Bursa is one of the cities that will be seriously affected in this regard. If we take these measures now, we will breathe a sigh of relief in the future.”