Department of Environment and Forestry Law, Faculty of Forestry, Istanbul University, 34473 Bahcekoy, Istanbul, Turkey E-mail:
Water Sci Technol. 2014;69(10):2155-65. doi: 10.2166/wst.2014.112.
Water resources have shaped the destinies of societies and affected settlement choice of civilizations for centuries. Demand for them is constantly increasing and this surge has become an important threat for water resources due to those excessive demands and variety of usage types; at the same time, balancing the protection and use of ground and surface waters has become more difficult. The progress in legal and corporate structures for water management has been too slow for a long time. In this study, principles of international conventions on groundwater are compared with the relevant Turkish groundwater legislation, which is in the process of harmonization with European Union (EU) acquis under the scope of Turkey's nomination for EU membership. The purpose of this study is to measure the compliance of Turkish legislation on groundwater with the relevant international principles and conventions, and also to analyze legal loopholes in Turkish legislation in accordance with the international principles and conventions to be determined.
水资源塑造了社会的命运，并影响了几个世纪以来文明的定居选择。对水资源的需求不断增加，由于这些过度的需求和多种用途类型，这种增长已成为水资源的一个重要威胁；同时，平衡保护和利用地下和地表水变得更加困难。很长一段时间以来，水管理的法律和公司结构的进展都过于缓慢。在这项研究中，将国际地下水公约的原则与正在与欧盟（EU）法规接轨的土耳其地下水立法进行了比较，土耳其在申请加入欧盟的范围内。本研究的目的是衡量土耳其地下水立法与相关国际原则和公约的一致性，并根据要确定的国际原则和公约分析土耳其立法中的法律漏洞。
