Blue Tunnel Project, is an effort to provide large-scale irrigation to arid lands of

Konya Plain The Konya Plain is a plain in the Central Anatolia Region of Turkey, associated with the Konya Province. It is a flat plain (a height of 900–1050 m) that covers the majority of Konya Basin and constitutes the main part of the Central Anat ...

, in the Turkish heartland, where agriculture and

wildlife Wildlife refers to domestication, undomesticated animal species (biology), species, but has come to include all organisms that grow or live wilderness, wild in an area without being species, introduced by humans. Wildlife was also synonymous ...

are under threat. Blue Tunnel, the most important part of the Konya Plain Project, is the second-largest irrigation scheme of Turkey after the

Southeastern Anatolia Project The Southeastern Anatolia Project ( tr, Güneydoğu Anadolu Projesi, GAP) is a multi-sector integrated regional development project based on the concept of sustainable development for the 9 million people (2005) living in the Southeastern Anatoli ...

(GAP), and aims to provide the region with a yearly 414 million cubic meters of water.

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