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Gölbaşı Dam Lake in Turkey’s Bursa dries up
Gölbaşı Dam Lake in Turkey’s Bursa dries up
Gölbaşı Dam Lake, one of the main sources of water for Bursa plain’s agricultural lands, has dried up by 90 percent. (Source: Demirören News Agency)
The dam lake was built by modern Turkey’s founder Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in 1933 in a bid to meet the irrigation needs of northwestern Bursa’s agricultural lands.
Farmers say that factories and industrial estates built on the Bursa plain use water from the dam, causing serious drawdown.
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