Villagers in Bursa's Gözede cut pipes to city water factory
Short record: the main facts, with sources. A full case file has not been prepared.
Villagers in Gözede (Kestel), Bursa, cut the pipes feeding the metropolitan municipality's water factory in August 2024. The municipality says the factory has its own line and that the dispute concerns irrigation.
- Bursa Metropolitan Municipality — Operates the water factory at the village site Bursa Haber
- Gözede villagers — Irrigation water reported diverted to the factory; crops reported dried in 2024 Habertürk
What happened
Habertürk reported that in August 2024 villagers in Gözede cut the pipes carrying water to the metropolitan municipality's water factory.
Habertürk also reported that village irrigation water had been diverted to the factory and that crops dried in 2024.
The municipality says the factory is fed from a separate line, that the problem concerns irrigation, and that it built a 105,000 m³ pond for the village.
In court and with insurers
Lawsuits and rulings
Insurers
What we don't know
Nature
- Not measured Harm to nature: The record holds no measurement of harm to nature.
Record
- Insufficient Reported but not verified: the villagers' account that irrigation water was diverted to the factory and that crops dried.
- None on record The municipality's account that the factory has a separate supply line has not been independently checked.
- None on record The sources reviewed do not give the volume of water used by the factory or the area of irrigated land affected.
Did the harm stop?
Not stated in the sources reviewed.
Who paid?
Not stated in the sources reviewed.
Sources
Press and investigations
- Gözede: irrigation water to the factoryHabertürk · 2024-08-20
Connected cases
- Villagers in Gözede, Bursa cut pipes to a municipal water factory Turkey · 2024
- Bursa Metropolitan Municipality (Government) — here: Operator of the water factory; there: operator of the factory; disputes the villagers' account
- Gözede villagers (Community group) — here: Villagers who cut the pipes; there: protesting residents
- Bursa’s bottled-water plants draw 4.4m m3 a year; dams hit 0.54% in 2025 Turkey · 2024–2025
- Bursa Metropolitan Municipality (Government) — here: Operator of the water factory; there: Public owner of the water factory in Gözede