Cases / Wind, hydro and other renewables · Turkey · 2022
Tortum Waterfall dries up after hydro plant operator cuts its water
Short record: the main facts, with sources. A full case file has not been prepared.
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.
The hydro plant at Turkey's Tortum Waterfall, privatised for 49 years, cut the water and the waterfall dried up completely, Diken reported in February 2022. The sources reviewed do not give the outcome of the governorship's investigation.
What?
The hydro plant operator at Tortum Waterfall cut the water and the waterfall dried up completely, Diken reported. Diken
Where?
Tortum Waterfall, Turkey Diken
When?
February 2022 Diken
Who?
Why?
Not stated in the sources reviewed.
How?
Privatised hydro plant at the waterfall; water cut by the operator. Diken
6 of 6 questions answered from the record
What happened
The record, in order.
The Tortum Waterfall's hydro plant had been privatised for 49 years, Diken reported in February 2022.
The operator cut the water, and the waterfall dried up completely.
The governorship opened an investigation.
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
- None on record The sources reviewed do not say when or to whom the 49-year privatisation was granted.
- None on record The outcome of the governorship's investigation is not stated in the sources reviewed.
- None on record No national inventory of dried river reaches in Turkey was found in the sources reviewed.
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
- Tortum dried up; governorship launches investigationDiken · 2022-02