Drinking water shortage in Yaka villages discussed
Elected officials from the ruling and opposition parties evaluated together the elimination of the drinking water shortage in three villages in the Yaka area of Kozlukebir Municipality.
Under the chairmanship of Kozlukebir Mayor Erdem Hüseyin, a meeting was held at the municipality building in Kozlukebir village to discuss, evaluate and determine solutions to the drinking water shortage in Dolapçılar, Durhasanlar and Hacıköy.
The meeting was attended by the mayor, deputy mayors and elected ruling and opposition mukhtars and councillors of the three villages where the problem occurred.
During the meeting chaired by Erdem Hussein, the headmen and councillors together determined the short and long term works to be carried out by the municipality in order to solve the drinking water problem.
After the meeting, in order to inform the residents of the three villages and the people of the municipality about the decisions taken to solve the problem, the chairman Erdem Hüseyin made a statement and stated the following
"Dear people of Dolapçılar, Hacıköy and Durhasanlar.
Due to the lack of precipitation, excessive evaporation, rapid consumption and pollution caused by global warming, clean water resources in the world are rapidly depleting. In this context, unfortunately, there are drinking water problems in our yaka villages this year. As Kozlukebir Municipality Administration, we organised a meeting with the participation of all elected representatives (ruling and opposition) of our Yaka villages and evaluated the short and long term solutions to this problem.
At the end of the meeting, the following precautionary decisions were taken unanimously.
SHORT TERM
🔴Places such as fields, vineyards, gardens, olive groves will be irrigated only between 22:00 at night and 06:00 in the morning.
🔴Water will be cut off every day between 12:00-16:00 in Hacıköy for saving purposes.
🔴If the above measures are not sufficient, in the second stage, the valve in the topallık area of Dolapçılar village will be closed between 10:00 in the morning and 18:00 in the evening.
LONG TERM
🛑Drinking water pomona to YAKA area, for which funds are already available in the Technical Programme.
🛑 Irrigation pomona to Hacıköy within the Irrigation Boreholes Project of Kozlukebir Municipality, whose appropriation was approved by the Province of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace in 2018. (This pomona will be organised in such a way that it can supply water to the drinking water reservoir when necessary.)
Please, no one should try to make politics over the drinking water issue because this problem is the problem of all of us, therefore we are trying to solve this problem together without making any distinction between the government/opposition. As you can appreciate, we are only in office for 6 months and these problems have existed for years, but we will solve this problem hand in hand with all our elected officials and the people of the Yaka region. I would like to thank all my mukhtars and councillor friends who attended the meeting and put forward all their good intentions and sincerely seek solutions."
