Title: Proposed "Peace Pipeline"
Description: A fresh water pipeline
Description: A fresh water pipeline
Egeli - March 12, 2005 08:50 PM (GMT)
It was proposed in the time of Turgut Ozal, but rejected by the Arab countries because of Turkey's close relations with Israel, the fact that the pipeline would transport water to Israel, and the reluctance of the Arab countries to become dependent on Turkey for fresh water. It's cost: $20 billion.
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ekrem - October 24, 2005 02:36 PM (GMT)
Turkey to build water pipeline for Turkish Cypriots
Saturday, October 8, 2005
http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=25406
ANKARA - AFP
Turkey launched a long-standing project on Friday to build a pipeline under the Mediterranean to supply water to the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (KKTC).
Officials signed a $9.5 billion (7.9 billion euro) deal with a contracting company for the 78-kilometer (48-mile) conduit that will run at a depth of 250 meters and carry 75 million cubic meters (2,625 million cubic feet) of water per year, the agency said.
The construction of the pipeline and related facilities on the two shores are due for completion in 27 months, but it is not yet clear when the conduit will become operational, an energy ministry spokesman told the AFP.
One-fifth of the annual supply would be used as drinking water and the rest for irrigation to revitalize agriculture in the KKTC, whose economy has been hard hit by international sanctions.
Turkey, the only country to recognize the KKTC, has long propped up the enclave, which has a population of about 200,000 people.
The pipeline will run from the southern Turkish province of Mersin on the Mediterranean coast across from Cyprus to the Gecitkoy area, near the northern Cypriot port of Kyrenia.
In the late 1990s Turkey sought to resolve the water shortage in the KKTC by transporting water to the island in huge plastic balloons, but the project soon proved inefficient and was abandoned.
The government in the southern Greek sector of the island is internationally recognized and last year joined the European Union.
Saturday, October 8, 2005
http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=25406
ANKARA - AFP
Turkey launched a long-standing project on Friday to build a pipeline under the Mediterranean to supply water to the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (KKTC).
Officials signed a $9.5 billion (7.9 billion euro) deal with a contracting company for the 78-kilometer (48-mile) conduit that will run at a depth of 250 meters and carry 75 million cubic meters (2,625 million cubic feet) of water per year, the agency said.
The construction of the pipeline and related facilities on the two shores are due for completion in 27 months, but it is not yet clear when the conduit will become operational, an energy ministry spokesman told the AFP.
One-fifth of the annual supply would be used as drinking water and the rest for irrigation to revitalize agriculture in the KKTC, whose economy has been hard hit by international sanctions.
Turkey, the only country to recognize the KKTC, has long propped up the enclave, which has a population of about 200,000 people.
The pipeline will run from the southern Turkish province of Mersin on the Mediterranean coast across from Cyprus to the Gecitkoy area, near the northern Cypriot port of Kyrenia.
In the late 1990s Turkey sought to resolve the water shortage in the KKTC by transporting water to the island in huge plastic balloons, but the project soon proved inefficient and was abandoned.
The government in the southern Greek sector of the island is internationally recognized and last year joined the European Union.