Yeşilçay Drinking Water Plant is a plant used to supply drinking water to

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Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a small portion on the Balkan Peninsula ...

İstanbul

The total population of İstanbul is 13 483 052 (as of 2011) which makes İstanbul one of the most populous cities of the world. The rate of annual increase is about 3.45% and the water demand is increasing asymptotically. So one of the most important problems of the municipality is to meet the demand.

Yeşilçay

Yeşilçay is a river at about east of

Anatolia Anatolia, tr, Anadolu Yarımadası), and the Anatolian plateau, also known as Asia Minor, is a large peninsula in Western Asia and the westernmost protrusion of the Asian continent. It constitutes the major part of modern-day Turkey. The re ...

n quarters of İstanbul. The headwaters are on the mountainous area of the Kocaeli Peninsula and the river flows to

Black Sea The Black Sea is a marginal mediterranean sea of the Atlantic Ocean lying between Europe and Asia, east of the Balkans, south of the East European Plain, west of the Caucasus, and north of Anatolia. It is bounded by Bulgaria, Georgia, Rom ...

Ağva Ağva is a populated place and resort destination in the Şile district of İstanbul Province, Turkey. History The area around Ağva was a part of ancient Bithynia. During the Ottoman era, Turkmen people were settled around Ağva. Up to 20th ce ...

The plant

There are two water regulators (Sungurlu and İsabey ) on the rivulet and the water is pumped to the purification plant at Emirli via mains pipe. The diameter of the prestressed steel mains pipe is . In the first stage of the project 145 000 000 m³ water has been given to service annually. In the second stage the annual water intake is increased to a total of 335 000 000 m³.

List of 50 projects

Turkish Chamber of Civil Engineers lists Yeşilçay Drinking Water Plant as one of the

fifty civil engineering feats in Turkey Fifty civil engineering feats in Turkey or more formally 50 works in 50 years is a list published in 2005 by the Turkish Chamber of Civil Engineers about fifty prestigious projects of the civil engineering in Turkey. The list has five subsectio ...

, a list of remarkable engineering projects realized in the first 50 years of the chamber.

References

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