TURKISH BATHS RUN DRY
- From: Vol 8, Issue 2 (February 2007)
- Category: Need to know
- Region: Middle East
- Country: Turkey
* It seems odd that Turkey, the very country Israel was planning to import water from – first via tankers then via a pipeline skirting the seabed of the Levant littoral – is now contemplating what would be not only be the largest RO plant in the world, but the largest desalination plant bar none.
Dursun Ali Çodur, Director General of ISKI, (Istanbul’s water utility) announced on 13 February that ISKI will seriously consider a 1 million m3/d plant if the current drought conditions prevail. However, one local observer describes the move as little more than a knee-jerk reaction to the below average rainfall pattern over the
past 6 months. He also ...
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