GC,s Reject Water Offer

Tatlisu4me


Joined: 26/01/2008
Posts: 436

Message Posted:
30/06/2008 22:02

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Monday, June 30, 2008



ISTANBUL - Turkish Daily News





Greek Cyprus has rejected a project to bring water to the island from Turkey despite the region being at the peak of a drought, daily Hürriyet reported yesterday.



Greek Cypriots are instead relying on plans to import water from Greece and the building of mobile desalination plants. According to an agreement signed by Greek Cypriot Agriculture Minister Michalis Polynikis and Greek Public Works Minister George Souflias Friday, Greece has agreed to sell 282.5 million cubic feet of water to Cyprus. “We will have the capability to transport 50,000 cubic meters daily from Greece through tanker shipments,” Polynikis said.



Northern Cyprus had offered to give a share to the South of the water to be brought from Turkey via underwater pipes during the technical committees' meetings aimed at solving the Cyprus issue. However, Greek Cypriot government spokesman Stefanos Stefanou rejected the proposal and said they could not accept water from Turkey unless the political problems are solved.



The Peace Water Venture, launched by the Alarko Company in 1995, foresaw the building of an underwater pipeline to bring water to northern Cyprus and Israel. Construction work on the project started last January. The 78-kilometer pipeline would have an annual capacity of 75 million cubic meters, much more than the amount needed by northern Cyprus.



Since the planning phase, it has been suggested that the surplus could be offered to the southern Greek Cypriot area as a goodwill gesture to speed up the peace process. However, Greek Cyprus has so far not given a green light to even discuss the possibility of such a project. In fact, the Greek Cypriot government rejected an Israeli company who won a desalination tender because the same company was building a desalination facility in the North.



A dry winter has reduced Cyprus' water reserves in the island's reservoirs to 7.5 percent of capacity – a third of last year's amount.

wynyardman



Joined: 15/12/2007
Posts: 4580

Message Posted:
30/06/2008 22:08

Solve the political problems then!!!



I thought that it was all about.



Why don't you just stop postureing with peoples lives!



Give peace a chance!



wyn

Tatlisu4me


Joined: 26/01/2008
Posts: 436

Message Posted:
30/06/2008 22:15

Wyn water is life, some of these politicians need to get a life !

wynyardman



Joined: 15/12/2007
Posts: 4580

Message Posted:
30/06/2008 22:30

Talisu4me,



Do these people not understand that water H2o is the basic ingredient in Effes beer!!



Now then.......if we cannot have a water pipeline from Turkey, could we have an Effes pipeline?



It might not solve the political situation, but, we would not be thirsty, and I could wash in the



sea, and anyway, no one would notice, if we had drunk enough Effes!..............but............



sign the petition to ammend....The Specific Performance Law of 1885.........if..............



YOU WISH TO ENSURE THAT YOU SEE THE DEEDS TO YOUR N CYPRIOT HOME



wyn

newlad



Joined: 02/03/2008
Posts: 7819

Message Posted:
30/06/2008 22:41

Ten pints Tats,

I really am lost for words.This really takes the biscuit.When will they bury the hatchet and accept the hand of peace,

Regards,

Paul.