
The amount of water being consumed in the north is already reaching levels which were not expected until 2043 , ‘agriculture minister’ Huseyin Cavus said on Wednesday.
“We used 44 million cubic metres of water for drinking and irrigation from Turkey last year, along with 13 million cubic metres from local sources. In addition, seven million cubic metres were used for agricultural irrigation in Morphou,” he told Kibris TV.
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