Water shortages spell trouble on Turkiye’s tourist coast

CESME:Ali Alyanak and his neighbors in Turkiye’s tourist hub Izmir now have to draw water from a shrinking aquifer 170 meters underground even as hotel pools remain full — a sign for many of the region’s dire water crisis amid prolonged drought. “Our parents used to draw water from a depth of eight to nine meters, but now we have to go down to 170 meters (560 feet),” said Alyanak, the 39-year-old village chief in Germiyan. To cope, authorities in nearby Cesme, a popular seaside resort in Izmir province on Turkiye’s western coast, are restricting drinking water access to 10 hours a day.

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