Declaration for Another Water Policy in Turkey
Water management should not be privatized and it should remain in public bodies in the framework of ecological, democratic and social policies. The mechanisms of the citizens’ participation to the decisions on water should be advanced.
Water is a human right, UN says
With a clear majority vote, the United Nations General Assembly has approved a resolution to make access to water a basic human right.
Dams: A Critical View
These recent years, issues caused by dams and hydroelectric power plants (HEPP) loom larger in the national agenda. Because of their extensive negative effects all around the country these projects are met with protests and campaigns that grow in number and effect.
Dams – A Wrong Choice in a Warming World
The hydropower industry is eager to promote dams as a “climate-friendly” alternative to fossil fuel plants, in order to benefit from subsidies intended to curb global warming. But growing evidence indicates that dams and reservoirs are globally significant sources of the greenhouse gases carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide.
Hydroelectric Power Plants: Problem or Solution?
With increasing industrialization, one of the most important issues in the early years of the Republic of Turkey is to counter the energy deficit. For this purpose, the General Directorate of Electrical Power Resources Survey Administration (EIE) was established to explore the possibilities of the electricity generation in 1935, in Turkey.
Commodification of Water, Right of Access to Water and Social Justice
Policies defined at international level in the face of the water crisis felt globally contradict the conceptualization of access to water as a human right. According to the United Nations (UN) and the World Bank (WB), for humans water is a ‘necessity’.
Highlights
Declaration for Another Water Policy in Turkey
We came together in order to promote participatory and democratic practices, to develop alternative models and to share experience...
Water is a human right, UN says
With a clear majority vote, the United Nations General Assembly has approved a resolution to make access to water a basic human...
Right to Water in a World Evaporated by Global Warming
Ümit Şahin “Essential relationship with soil can be summed up by the verb “to own”. Water on the other hand washes...
Dams – A Wrong Choice in a Warming World
Payal Parekh The hydropower industry is eager to promote dams as a “climate-friendly” alternative to fossil fuel plants, in...
Hydroelectric Power Plants: Problem or Solution?
İlker Karayilan With increasing industrialization, one of the most important issues in the early years of the Republic of Turkey...
Dams: A Critical View
Ercan Ayboğa, Initiative for Hasankeyf These recent years, issues caused by dams and hydroelectric power plants (HEPP) loom larger...
Commodification of Water, Right of Access to Water and Social Justice
Filiz Kartal Dr., Public Administration Institute for Turkey and Middle East, Ankara, Turkey ABSTRACT Policies defined at international...
The Human Right to Water
Raffaella Cavalho (Italian World Water Contract) 1. Foreword Water is a resource that is necessary for life: you can’t live...
Media
Resource: Hurriyet Daily News, 01.09.2010
Controversy over plans to bury an ancient city in western Turkey with sand ahead of a new dam project was overshadowed Wednesday by revelations from Turkey’s environment minister that the site did not, in fact, exist. Read more
Interviews with Ercan Ayboğa, İpek Taşlı and Serhat Resul from Another Water Management Is Possible Campaign and Keep Hasankeyf Alive Initiative.
European Social Forum Demo – IstanbulMore Media
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