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FRESENIUS ENVIRONMENTAL BULLETIN, vol.23, pp.3110-3116, 2014 (SCI-Expanded)
Istanbul, which is the most crowded city of Turkey, is also among the world's highly populated cities, and its population is increasing day by day so that water resources of this metropolitan are under excessive stress. Today, population of this huge metropolitan is about 13,500,000 and this mega city needs approximately 2,250,000 m(3) water per day. Considerable amount of this demand -almost allis supplied from the dams around the city and by inter-basin water transfer.