Major Investment in Konya’s Water Infrastructure

Konya Metropolitan Municipality continues its efforts to protect the city's water resources and ensure an uninterrupted supply of drinking water.

Due to the prolonged drought in Konya, the Metropolitan Municipality has launched the construction of 80 additional drinking water wells in the city center as part of its Drought Emergency Action Plan to ensure the uninterrupted supply and distribution of drinking water. Through this project, the municipality is also continuing the construction of various water infrastructure facilities, including wells, power transmission lines, pumping stations, pumping lines, transmission lines, and distribution pipelines.

One of the main components of the project, the Alakova Drinking Water Pumping Station with a capacity of 2,000 cubic meters, will receive water from 14 existing wells in the area as well as 33 wells currently under construction. This water will be used to meet the drinking water needs of the city center.

Konya Metropolitan Mayor Uğur İbrahim Altay emphasized that they took action especially after water levels at the Bağbaşı Dam, which supplies the city’s water network, dropped to critical levels. He stated that, in order to prevent water shortages in the city, the water collected from the wells drilled in the Alakova region will be transferred to drinking water reservoirs and the city’s water network through the pumping station and additional pumping lines.

The facility, which is planned to include a basement-level reservoir, a ground-floor pump room, and rooms for electrical and chlorine units, will be completed along with the newly drilled wells, power transmission lines, electrical transformers, pumps, steel and ductile pipelines, and other infrastructure structures. The project is expected to be completed in September at a cost of 834 million Turkish lira.