ROJAVA– The Turkish occupation state continues to reduce Syria’s share of the Euphrates River water by 60% of the total amount agreed upon, according to the 1987 agreement between Ankara, Damascus and Baghdad.
According to the management of the Tishreen Dam, the second largest dam in Syria; Only 150 cubic meters per second of the Euphrates River water is currently entering the Syrian territory coming from Turkey in a continuous reduction since January 27, 2021, noting that the agreed quantity is 500 cubic meters per second.
The Turkish occupation state’s construction of a number of giant dams on the Euphrates River during the past decades has affected its ability to storage large amounts of river water behind those dams, such as the Ataturk Dam, whose lake stores 48 billion cubic meters of water, which is equivalent to 4 times the storage capacity of the Euphrates Dam lake. in Syria; It is the largest dam in the country.
According to the Tishreen Dam administration, the dam stops for 18 hours a day without generating electricity. Due to the lack of water supply, as for the output of the other 6 hours, villages in northern and eastern Syria are provided with 4 hours per day of electric current, and cities with 7 hours.
The Dams Administration in North and East Syria noted in previous statements that the Turkish occupation state continued to block the Euphrates water; Dams may go out of service and create a humanitarian catastrophe in the region.
In addition, 400 thousand hectares of agricultural land on the banks of the Euphrates have been damaged. As a result of the Turkish occupation state reducing the river level during the past two years.
Water reduction by the turkish fascist state drains Reservoir of Tishreen Lake in Manbij
