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Bodrum, which did not get off the agenda with floods, explosions of drinking water lines and infrastructure problems, this time began to enter the agenda with the risk of drought. Due to the Covid-19 outbreak, citizens with their second homes who escaped from metropolitan cities and settled in Bodrum revealed water and infrastructure problems. The district’s population, which was 170,000 during the winter months, reached 600,000. Therefore, the water use has been multiplied by 3. The water level at the Mumcular Dam, which is the most important source of water that feeds the main water network of Bodrum due to the lack of sufficient rain, was of the 47 percent at the beginning of December last year, up 26 percent, and the water level at the Geyikli Dam from 67 to 60 percent. it fell. In the district where the drought alarm was raised, it was warned that there may be a lack of water during the tourist season if measures are not taken. The metropolitan mayor of Muğla, Dr. In his statement on December 16, Osman Gürün stated that there was little rain until the last 3 days of rain and therefore the occupation rate of the dams decreased and called on citizens to use the water more carefully.
‘PROBLEMS MAY BE EXPERIENCED WHEN SUPPLYING DRINKING WATER IN SUMMER’
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Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University, Department of Civil Engineering, Head of the Department of Water Resources, who conducted examinations in Mumcular Dam. Dr. Ceyhan Ozcelik, “decrease in water resources in the amount of rainfall in drought, agricultural production, said that It was a natural event that affects the environment and living organisms Since the beginning of September Ozcelik, which indicates that everything begins to happen the meteorological drought, with a reduction of rains in Turkey, so the Mumcular Sin water dam However, due to the lack of predicted rainfall in spring, there is a risk that meteorological drought will turn into hydrological drought in summer and then agricultural drought. Hydrological drought will affect our surface waters and then our groundwater. This increases the potential of causing major problems in our daily lives, as well as in our agricultural activities, “he said.
Noting that Mumcular Dam has a volume of 19 million cubic meters, Assoc. Dr Özçelik said: “10 million cubic meters of this is used for drinking water and the rest is used for agricultural irrigation. There is a possibility that it will be consumed by approximately 250,000 people. Bodrum’s drinking water is provided with the additional water from 5 to 10 million cubic meters that can be obtained from the Geyik Dam. However, the drought “It seems that we will feel the drought in our homes, especially if the explosions in the main transmission line of drinking water of Bodrum, which are expressed in thousands, they cannot be resolved, “he said.
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‘DAMS SHOULD BE OPERATED WITH CONSIDERATION OF POSSIBLE DROUGHTS’
Assoc. Dr. Özçelik continued: “To minimize the effects of a possible drought, dam operations should be carried out on the basis of scenarios that take into account the possible effects of drought, especially in multi-use dams, taking into account it takes into account the needs of drinking water instead of energy and irrigation. Our citizens must also use their water more economically in this period, and the sewerage administrations must carry out the necessary awareness-raising activities. “
