Forecasting drinking and household water requirement of the Thrace region
2007
Istanbulluoglu, A., Namik Kemal University, Faculty of Agriculture, Tekirdag (Turkey). Div. of Agricultural Structures and Irrigation | Konukcu, F., Namik Kemal University, Faculty of Agriculture, Tekirdag (Turkey). Div. of Agricultural Structures and Irrigation | Kocaman, I., Namik Kemal University, Faculty of Agriculture, Tekirdag (Turkey). Div. of Agricultural Structures and Irrigation | Gocmen, E., Namik Kemal University, Faculty of Agriculture, Tekirdag (Turkey). Div. of Agricultural Structures and Irrigation
This study aims at future forecasting drinking and household water requirements of the Thrace region by the aid of a scientific perspective. To realise this, first future population of the region was predicted and then the water requirements were calculated. As results, water requirements of the city and the countryside for the years 2020, 2030, 2040 and 2050 were computed as 1.45, 1.94, 2.58 and 3.44 km3, respectively. Beside, rapidly increasing drinking and household water requirements due to fast population growth and immense amount of migration into the region, demands by agriculture and intensive industry suggest that the present total water potential of about 4.0 km3 will not be sufficient and a great water crisis may be experienced. Adverse effects of a probable global climate change on water resources make the situation more acute. To overcome this crisis, governmental agencies and civil societies are called work together to produce and implement rational strategies
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