1. Water Management in Turkey
Nermin ÇİÇEK
Ministry for the Forest and Water Affairs
DG Water Management

2. Turkey’s water challenge

3. Turkey as EU candidate member
During the precidency of Sweden beginning of negotiations for Environment - Chapter 27 officially declared at the “Intergovernmental Accession Conference” which took place in Brussel, December 21st, 2009. 3

4. Closing benchmarks Two closing benchmarks for water:
Transposition of WFD
River basin management plans for 25 river basins

5. Harmonization of WFD legislation Water Law*
/01/10
Harmonization of WFD
Revising the existing
legislation
Environmental Law/By- Law on Water Pollution Control
New legislation*
Water Law*
By-law on River Basin protection (Draft)* 5

6. ORGANIZATION

7. River basins in Turkey

8. Waste Water Treatment Action Plan River Basin Protection Action Plans
River Basin Management Plans
MINISTRY OF ENVİRONMENT AND FORESTRY
DG Environment Management
MINISTRY OF ENVİRONMENT AND FORESTRY
DG Environment Management
Büyük Menderes RBMP
Akarçay
RBPAP
WWTAP 8 8

9. BASIN PROTECTION ACTION PLANS
Started in the last quarter of 2011
Will be revised
Will be finished
Basin Protection Action Plans are being prepared. 11 basins are completed, 5 basins are being updated, 9 basins are started.
They will set basis for the River Basin Management Plans which will be prepared in the context of Water Framework Directive 9

10. EXAMPLE
ERGENE RIVER BASIN

11. DETERMINATION OF SPECIAL PROVISION STUDIES IN TURKEY
COMPLETED
CONTINUED
UNDER CONTRACT PROCESS
PLANNED
Determination of Special Provision studies are being conducted for the protection of drinking water basins. 11

12. WATER FOOTPRINT STUDIES IN TURKEY
TRAINING WITH CERTIFICATE IS CARRIED OUT BY THE COORDINATION OF WWF AND GENERAL DIRECTORATE OF WATER MANAGEMENT
WATER EFFICIENCY
We are struggling with water loss and leakage, developing standards, passing to certificate phase.
STUDIES FOR REUSE OF TREATED DOMESTIC WASTEWATER IN IRRIGATION
Planlarda bu konularında ele alındığı bilgisi verilecek
Important steps for the reuse of treated domestic wastewater.
The project ( Euro) is being started with Afyonkarahisar Municipality under the scope of Holland bilateral cooperation studies. 12

13. /01/10
IPA-2011 Project on the Conversion of River Basin Protection Action Plans into River Basin Management Plans
Budget : Euro
Duration : 3 years
Beneficiary : Ministry of Forestry and Water Affairs
Purpose : Meriç Basin, Susurluk Basin, Akarçay Basin, Büyük Menderes Basin and Konya Closed Basin
Sözlü detay verilecek 13

14. Project titled “Capacity Building on Water Quality Monitoring” was submitted to the Component I of IPA for the Programming Year 2009.
UNDER THE SCOPE OF EURO EU TWINNING PROJECT IN
BÜYÜKMENDERES
ERGENE
SUSURLUK
SAKARYA
AKARÇAY
BASINS
DETERMINATION OF MEASURING STATIONS, PARAMETERS WHICH WILL BE MEASURED
AND MEASUREMENT INTERVALS 14

15. WE ARE PROVIDING BASIN WIDE TRAININGS
39 persons are received certificate in Training of Trainers Project.
60 persons are received certificate in Water Footprint Training
Basin management training is given to municipalities.
NGO pool is formed.
TAIEX application about water economy is confirmed.
Negotiation training is done.
Resim eklenecek 15 15

16. TIME TABLE Action Year Remarks Designation of River Basin Districts1
Designation of River Basin Districts
2012
25 basins have already been defined. 2
Start preparing the Article 5 Reports for River Basins
After 2013
River Basin Protection Action Plans (RBPAP) will set the basis for Article 5 reports 3
Start preparing the river basin management plans
After 2014 4
Start of implementation of river basin management plans
After 2015 5
Achievement of “good water status”
2027
Depends on the actual challenges in the basins.

17. RBMP TIME TABLE Exemptions
2027(EU) 2033
4. RBMP
TURKEY
2021(EU)
3. RBMP
Many Member States will achieve good status at this date
2015(EU) 2021
2. RBMP
2009(EU) 2015
1. RBMP
Exemptions
Implementation dates foreseen by the Directive

18. concentration of tasks at
policy making and
-implementation
integrated
separated
concentration of tasks at
national level
regional level

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