"Water, water everywhere -- but Ankara
Monday, June 5, 2006
Yusuf KANLI
Residential water tanks were fact of life in the past here. Water cuts several hours a day were nothing extraordinary until very recently.
Then, things started to change. Was it because Turks discovered the incompetence of social democrats in municipalities and replaced them with center-right and Islamist mayors, or was it because all of a sudden Turkey's urban water resources miraculously improved? That's another topic. But we have become accustomed to an uninterrupted water supply from municipalities. Over the past two years, however, we have started encountering the same old problem in almost all the country's major urban areas. Alas, while in the past municipalities often announced water cuts in advance -- or if it resulted from a system malfunction, municipalities announced the problem and its expected duration -- now no one bothers to inform the public, particularly if the water cut happens over a weekend."
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