Yeşilçay Drinking Water Plant is a plant used to supply drinking water to İstanbul

Istanbul

Istanbul , historically known as Byzantium and Constantinople , is the largest city of Turkey. Istanbul metropolitan province had 13.26 million people living in it as of December, 2010, which is 18% of Turkey's population and the 3rd largest metropolitan area in Europe after London and...

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Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

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İstanbul

The total population of İstanbul is 12 782 960 (as of 2009) which makes İstanbul as one of the most populous cities of the world.. The rate of annual increase of this figure is about 3.45 % and the water demand is increasing asymptotically. So one of the most important problems of the municipality is to meet the demand.

Yeşilçay

Yeşilçay is a rivulet at about 60 kilometres (37.3 mi) east of Anatolia

Anatolia

Anatolia is a geographic and historical term denoting the westernmost protrusion of Asia, comprising the majority of the Republic of Turkey...

n quarters of İstanbul. The headwaters are on the mountainous area of the Kocaeli Peninsula

Kocaeli Peninsula

- Geography :The peninsula is at the north west corner of Anatolia. The length toward west is and the average width is about . It is bordered by the Black Sea to the north, Sea of Marmara to the south and the strait of Bosphorus to the west. The geographers consider it to be a part of Kocaeli...

 and the rivulet flows to Black Sea

Black Sea

The Black Sea is bounded by Europe, Anatolia and the Caucasus and is ultimately connected to the Atlantic Ocean via the Mediterranean and the Aegean seas and various straits. The Bosphorus strait connects it to the Sea of Marmara, and the strait of the Dardanelles connects that sea to the Aegean...

 near Şile

Sile

Şile is a small holiday city on the Black Sea, 70 km from the city of Istanbul, Turkey. Şile is the also the name of the district and the municipality that contain the city center of Şile...

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The plant

There are two water regulators (Sungurlu and İsabey ) on the rivulet and the water is pumped to the purification plant at Emirli via 2650 metres (8,694.2 ft) mains pipe. The diameter of the prestressed steel mains pipe is 3000 millimetres (118.1 in) . In the first stage of the project 145 000 000 m³ water has been given to service annually. In the second stage the annual water intake is increased to a total of 335 000 000 m³.

List of 50 projects

Turkish chamber of Civil engineers lists Yeşilçay Drinking Water Plant as one of the fifty civil engineering feats in Turkey

Fifty civil engineering feats in Turkey

Fifty civil engineering feats in Turkey or more formally 50 works in 50 years is the name of a list published by the Chamber of Civil Engineers in Turkey about 50 prestigious projects of the civil engineering in Turkey. The list has five subsections about regional development, general purpose...

, a list of remarkable engineering projects realized after the decleration of Turkish republic.