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

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Istanbul

The total population of Istanbul is nearly 16 million (as of 2022), which makes Istanbul one of the most populous cities of the world. The rate of annual increase is about 3.5% 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 about east of

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n quarters of Istanbul. The headwaters are on the mountainous area of the

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and the river flows to the

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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 subsection ...

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

References

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