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World Wildlife Fund Sounds Alarm on Turkey Water Shortages Bloomberg 1/21/2021 Ercan Ersoy
(Bloomberg) Ten provinces in Turkey, including Istanbul and Ankara, have been declared water-scarce by the World Wildlife Fund, which decried a lack of official planning.
The non-governmental organization sounded the alarm following a five-year global analysis using data sets including climate change, water regulation and governance, said Stuart Orr, head of WWF’s Global Freshwater Program, in a video news conference. India and other parts of South Asia are also at risk, he said.
“Cities run out of water, not because of climate change, but they run out of water because they have no plan,” Orr said. Main causes of water scarcity are usually failure to fix leakages and improve irrigation systems, lack of demand management and improper allocation of water, he said.