İZSU General Directorate has accelerated drilling operations on the Peninsula. In order for citizens not to experience water problems during the holiday season, 10 more water wells will be opened with an investment of 10 million liras. Thus, the number of water wells opened in the last year will have increased to 20, and the investment amount will have increased to 20 million liras.
The Izmir Metropolitan Municipality İZSU General Directorate is adding new ones to the existing underground resources in the Peninsula region. Considering the increasing population especially in the summer months in the Peninsula region due to drought and climate crisis, İZSU General Directorate has rolled up its sleeves to open 10 new water wells in Urla, Seferihisar and Karaburun with an investment of 10 million liras. İZSU distributed the water of the 10 new wells opened in Karaburun, Urla, Seferihisar and Menderes to the neighborhoods via transmission lines this year.
İZSU calls on farmers to save water
Ömür Oran, İZSU 3rd Region Hydrogeology Engineer, stated that they renewed the water wells that had reached the end of their life span and also opened new wells in order to protect the efficiency and level of underground waters, and said, “As İZSU General Directorate, we are conducting many studies to protect underground water resources that we see as the guarantee of our future in the light of science. We are also renewing a well that had lost its efficiency and was used by İZSU for many years in the Seferihisar Düzce region. We opened 10 water wells in the Peninsula region in the last year. We will open 10 more wells in Urla, Seferihisar and Karaburun. Approximately 70 percent of the water produced as underground water and drinking water in the world is consumed in agriculture. Farmers have a major role to play here. Switching to drip irrigation, preferring economical and recreational plants that require less water as an alternative to grass, silage and corn cultivation, collecting rainwater and building additional aboveground and underground dams in the long term are gaining importance.”
