YONCA POYRAZ DOĞAN İSTANBUL | Today’s Zaman | 20 March 2009
With water in the Middle East being depleted and demand growing fast, Turkey and Syria have put their differences aside and begun findings ways to share water equitably through innovative projects.
One project both countries agreed in principle to develop is the Asi Friendship Dam, to be built on the Asi (Orontes) River on the border between Syria and Turkey. The Asi River originates in Syria and flows through Turkey’s Hatay province before spilling into the Mediterranean Sea.
A Turkish team of technical experts will go to Syria this weekend to start work on mapping, with feasibility studies soon to follow, said sources from the State Waterworks Authority (DSİ) who requested to remain anonymous. …
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