Cases / Water use · Turkey · date not stated
Court of Accounts found İSKİ allocated springs without tender at low rent
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Nature's voice · report
No measurement of the harm done to me here is on record.
Did nature suffer? Not measured.
Not on record
- The record does not name which of my species, waters, soils or forests were harmed.
Sayıştay, Turkey's Court of Accounts, found that İSKİ, Istanbul's water utility, allocated springs without tender and collected very low rent. The stake for nature is public control over the city's spring water.
What?
The Court of Accounts found that İSKİ, Istanbul's water utility, allocated springs without tender and collected very low rent. Sayıştay (Turkish Court of Accounts)
Where?
Istanbul, Turkey Sayıştay (Turkish Court of Accounts)
When?
Reported 4 December 2021 (Takvim); years of the allocations not verified Sayıştay (Turkish Court of Accounts)
Who?
Gained
None on recordLost
- Public revenue from spring rents — rent collection the audit called very low Sayıştay (Turkish Court of Accounts)
Harmed
None on recordWhy?
Not stated in the sources reviewed.
How?
Springs allocated without tender at low rent. Sayıştay (Turkish Court of Accounts)
6 of 6 questions answered from the record
What happened
The record, in order.
The Court of Accounts (Sayıştay) found that İSKİ, Istanbul's water utility, allocated springs without tender and collected very low rent.
İSKİ holds 45 percent of Hamidiye Kaynak Suları, a spring water company, and the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality holds 55 percent, according to the Court of Accounts.
In court and with insurers
Every proceeding and every insurer decision on record.
Lawsuits and rulings
No court case on record. No court has ruled on this case.
Insurers
No insurer decision on record.
What we don't know
Undisclosed, unproven, untried: recorded as data.
Nature
- Not measured Harm to nature: The record holds no measurement of harm to nature.
Record
- Insufficient Reported but not verified: the year of the audit finding and of the allocations.
- None on record The sources reviewed do not name the springs, their volumes, or the companies that received them.
- None on record The sources reviewed do not say whether İSKİ has responded or whether the allocations have changed.
Did the harm stop?
Not stated in the sources reviewed.
Who paid?
Not stated in the sources reviewed.
Sources
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Press and investigations
- Sayıştay report on İstanbul Su ve Kanalizasyon İdaresi Genel Müdürlüğü (İSKİ)Sayıştay (Turkish Court of Accounts) · 2021-12-04
- Hamidiye Kaynak Suları Sanayi Turizm ve Ticaret A.Ş. audit reportSayıştay (Turkish Court of Accounts) ·
Connected cases
Related matters, and cases linked to this one through the same organisations, with the role each played in both.
- Istanbul's municipality and water utility co-own spring-water bottler Hamidiye Turkey · 2021
- İSKİ (Istanbul Water and Sewerage Administration) (Government) — here: allocated the springs; there: 45% owner of Hamidiye; Istanbul water utility
- Hamidiye Kaynak Suları Sanayi Turizm ve Ticaret A.Ş. (Company) — here: spring water company partly owned by İSKİ; there: spring-water bottler
- Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (İBB) (Government) — here: majority owner of Hamidiye; there: 55% owner of Hamidiye