Salt Lake 85 Percent In 90 Years

24.03.2008 CNN Türk

Aksaray University Faculty of Engineering Geodezi and Photogrametri Engineering Department Yrd. Professor Dr. Semih Ekercin said that in a research on drought in Salt Lake, he examined the change of coastal line in the last century.
[[T]]Ekercin essential that the map and current satellite images are used in the "Tuz Lake Change Determination Study", which was obtained with the comparison of the current satellite images. [[
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Ekercin also permitted this work is supported by working on the land.

said Ekercin, as a result of the studies he made with 90-year maps and today satellite photos, found that Salt Lake was about 85 percent smaller in the 90 years, "I found that Salt Lake was about 2 thousand 164 kilometers of the water surface area, when we examined historical military maps of 1915, by Ottoman.
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Ekercin, "I have determined that the water surface area of Salt Lake fell by 926kil in 1987, in 2005, 326 sq.m. The construction of dam on the resources reaching to the lake in the reduction of Salt Lake, spoke to the opening of leaked wells from 1990s and the fact that climate change in recent years is effective.

After the construction of the massages, Ekercin expressed that the withdrawal in the lake until 1990s was not too much drinks, "This year later the flow from the south to the lake through the influence of the leaked wells was born. The leaks in the final of the Peacock and Salt Lake. He also thought about the construction of dam on the Pegibility Joint in Şereflikoçhisar, the only source that nourishes the lake.

Ekercin emphasizes that the Lake of Salt is divided into two, "Gölün Ankara-Aksaray is broken from Salt Lake. The reason why water is seen throughout the year, spoke in the form of the eastern part of the lake of Ekecik Mountain, which has more than than the region.
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Ekercin reported that in 2015, Salt Lake will be completely dried.

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