Dear DAI People, I have received today e mail from Ozge Celikaslan, from KozaVisual organization.  

Dear Ljubica,

 I’m sorry for replying your mail lately; I was abroad and couldn’t reply e-mails. It will be nice to meet you at NIHA (Netherlands Institute for Higher Education in Ankara, where DAI group is going to stay at) after your Cappadocia research.

I have been coordinating KozaVisual since last year. We went to Cappadocia, Ibrahimpasa Village two times in 2007. Alite was with us in one of them. Actually, we tried to understand the village life and villagers through visual tools. But we didn’t have enough time to understand it deeply. Later, I went to Cappadocia a few times for other NIHA projects.

 The village is a typical one in mid-Anatolia. But at the same time, it has a special characteristic. It is divided in two parts: the new village and the old one. You will stay in the old part of it. Old part has caves; old houses remained from Greeks and churches in the valley. There was a huge migration motion in Turkey between 1904-1915 (if I’m not wrong for the exact dates). The migration was forced by the Turkish government and military forces. Greeks, Armenians and other minorities were forced to leave their villages and homes. The film, named 190B tries to tell this story. Director of the film tried to find the lost door number, which is supposed as a metaphor of the history. This Christian history had to be forgotten by the villagers, you could take it as a “loss of memory”

 There are lots of underground cities in the area remained from wars or attacks. The guessed number is around 130 (I’m sure much more than this number). But only 30 of them were found and open to tourist visits.

Ok, I can tell more but the theme is water. Cappadocia has a special nature. The caves and huge stones all around the area, as an open museum, is the second example in the world. And the most important problem in the area is environment. There is no environment and water management policy in the area. For Ibrahimpasa and other villages, villagers still throw their wastes to the valleys. In the old times, this system works, because the waste was natural but now, modern wastes are plastic, chemical etc.

 Water system is old and doesn’t work. The village has no water in winter because of the frozen pipes. You will see from the pictures of Willemijn and she will tell more about water problems I think. The point is, for the villagers, it is very ordinary. Some of them, especially younger ones are very angry about waste problems. I don’t know who is “the guilty”, government, mayors, municipality, villagers.

 Art/Eco Platform Cappadocia is trying to tell it by art. And, you should meet with Fabriakartgroup in Mustafapasa, Sinasos with its old name. They organize the modern art festival in Cappadocia and the theme is “water bright”. I am also in the organization team. I told about your visit to directors of the festival, Kaan and Gulhan. They will wait for to meet with you. www.fabrikartgroup.org

 I hope that this information helps. Do you have any other questions?

Greetings to your friends and I’m looking forward to meet you at NIHA between 12th and 14th of June.

 All the best, Ozge - www.kozavisual.org  

 This are the new information about our project. Thank to everybody on the fast reply!  

Suzanne Van Rest

Tourism*

Is tourism causing more problems in wastewater and garbage, because they are used to higher standards. And therefore using more water for example with showering.

*Is their a demand from the tourist to change the situation, because tourist don’t like to see polluted ground and water.

*Is their a problem when a lot of tourist come at the same time, is their for example enough water then. And who is getting the water, the big hotels or the local people

*Can tourism be used for dealing with this problem, the money they bring in or the connections etc.

places to find answers:

*tourist organizations

*local government

*hotels

*local people

*water companies(?)

*rotary club  

 

Ljubica Cvoric

Garbage dump places

* Check next places and see what is the most urgent and polluted area:

officially garbage dump placesn 

illegal dump placesn   

garbage dump places from individual householdsn   

butcher / slaughter garbage·     

 

What is opinion of the local people about this, and what is opinion of the local government (maybe to do a interview with few different people).

Research the level of awareness about this problem, because I assume that lot of people simply don’t see this situation as a urgent and “dangerous”.·     

What are the rules and regulations about garbage dump places?·     

Check the way on which they are collecting the garbage and trash. How often they collect the trash (employers who are responsible for collecting the trash).·     

How the system for recycling is functioning there?·     

Do they have some priorities when is the matter of trash?·      Think about the differences in the city and in the village – in the sense of solving the problems with garbage.

How the cities are dealing with the garbage in touristic areas, near hotels, beaches etc.·     

 Try to collect as much information as possible about the garbage places, and try to make some kind of map, with all specific and characteristic information.·     

Try to build a kind of “guide” map, and maybe, later try to find a way to mark all this places in the same manner, so they can be more visible. In “artistic” way ( to be more designed, to have a different shape, for example), -but what is more important, through that kind of “new” visibility they should bring another level,  layer of awareness. 

 

Hidenori Mitsue

InfrastructureQuestions:

What is the systems there?

* waterworks infrastructure.

* Sewage disposal infrastructure.

* Situation of wastewater treatment center. What is happening there?

* Where the water is coming from? (How they get the water?)

* Where the water is going?

* How much water they are using (need)? 

How they are “behave” with the water?

* How people are using it?

* How people deal with the wastewater?

* How much budget for the infrastructure the government have?  

 

Marina Tomic

Wastewater Wastewater can come from:

-Human waste, usually from: used toilet paper, wipes, urine, other bodily fluids

-Septic tank discharge

-Sewage treatment

-Washing water (personal, clothes, floors, dishes, etc.)

-Rainfall collected on roofs, yards, hard-standings, etc.

-Liquids from domestic sources (drinks, cooking oil, pesticides, paint, cleaning liquids, etc.)

-Seawater ingress

-Direct ingress of river water

-Direct ingress of man-made liquids (illegal disposal of pesticides, used oils, etc.)

-Industrial waste:–industrial site drainage (silt, sand, alkali, oil, chemical)0.Industrial process waters0.

Organic - bio-degradable - includes waste from abattoirs and creameries and ice-cream manufacture.0.

Organic - non bio-degradable or difficult to treat - for example Pharmaceutical or Pesticide manufacturing0.

Inorganic - for example from the metalworking industry0.extreme pH - from acid/alkali manufacturing, metal plating0.

Toxic - e.g. from metal plating, cyanide production, pesticide manufacturing0.agricultural drainage - direct and diffuse0.etc.

Starting to read about waste water I found a lot of treatment process which can be used to clean up wastewater, some of them are:-          Wastewater treatment plants which may include physical, chemical and biological treatment processes.-         

Use of septic tanks  -         

On-Site Sewage Facilities which is widespread in rural areas,-         

 The most important aerobic treatment system is the activated sludge process, based on the keeping and recirculation of a complex biomass composed by micro-organisms able to absorb and adsorb the organic matter carried in the wastewater-           

Ecological approaches using reed bed systems such as constructed wetlands may be appropriate. Modern systems include tertiary treatment by micro filtration or synthetic membranes. After membrane filtration, the treated wastewater is indistinguishable from waters of natural origin of drinking quality. I suppose that exist more other treatments, these few I just mention, but I still don’t have idea how they look, and how they work. That will be the first thing or question for waste water in Cappadocia- to see their system for waste water.In mail of Caroline Delan (which Buba posted, few days ago) I read that the village has  system to collect the waste water, but still they miss wastewater treatment system. That is thing on which they are working now -wetlands.In this mail Caroline tell everything about wastewater, and also about their future plans, process, recording of process and people and organization that are included in. But even if I read carefully I still miss a lot about treatments. 

 So, questions will/can be:

-From where is coming most of wastewater in rural area of Cappadocia ?-What is the source? (as I mention on beginning source can be- human waste, liquids from domestic sources, industrial site, rainfall etc)-And something about future wetland project. Lot of people is included in-organizations, students, local people, and businessmen’s.

-What is the expectation of this project from their point of view? I think that we can ask same questions

:-Local people-Students from Cappadocia professional University, Mustafapasa, who are included in project and voluntary students-Organizations NihaAnkara and local authorities –-Also the thing which  is interesting for me is that film maker from KozaVisual will coordinate in preparing visibly material for recording of process wetland, and I would like that we can see more video materials from KozaVisual. 

Renaldi Zefi

Industry

1.    Where is the location of most industrial sites?

2.    Is there any house or people live nearby?

3.    What kind of factory that we can find the most?

4.    What type of industry that make the worst (and least) pollution?

5.    Is there any policy for establishing new factory.

6.    How the factory treat their waste? Underground cities : people still use it or just an abandoned space?Monastery : any Christian monasteries still exist / function around Cappadocia, and how they interact with local (surrounding) people?Music : any traditional groups of musician that I can work together with?   

Maybe not so useful web sites to see, but still enough interesting to check it, and understand better our future-present project in Turkey…

http://www.swfwmd.state.fl.us/conservation/rainbarrel/

http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/

Dear DAI people,

I received yesterday an e mail form Willemijn Bouman.

Please read it, and check the web site that she send to us about Kozavisual organisation.

dear Ljubica

i saw the DAI-blog on Cappadocia and enjoyed it!
also want to encourage you to make email contact with Ozge Celikaslan
 from
KozaVisual: http://www.kozavisual.org to exchange ideas.

she knows the village of Irahimpasa/Babayan (where i live) also very
 wel
from a Turkish point of view. and you should approach her, because
KozaVisual already developed some very interesting video-projects.

don’t hesitate to inform yourselves.

good luck
Willemijn

I have some more news. Please look this web pages:

http://www.thecoca-colacompany.com/citizenship/environment.html

http://www.thecoca-colacompany.com/citizenship/eurasia.html

Dear DAI people,

Marina, Renaldi and I have contacted Caroline Delan. She replied us today, and I am sending you e mail, and letter which she send me in the attachment. I think  all this information can be quite useful for the beginning of our research.

Dear Ljubica 

I attached you the project concept that we submitted today to a specific funding! We hope the project will be awarded by mid-June and to start it in July or so!

I also invite you to see our website and go to our focus areas to have a clue about what we do and intend to do on water management related to education and research!!!

Let me know also about your art project and your plans for further cooperation with Turkish universities or so!

And here is the letter with all necessary information.

Project Initiation Document

WETKAP – TOWARD AN ALTERNATİVE AND SUSTAİNABLE SOLUTİON FOR WASTEWATER TREATMENT İN RURAL AREAS İN CAPPADOCİA: SETTİNG-UP AN ARTİFİCİAL WETLAND İN IBRAHıMPAŞA

Promoter
Contact
Tel
E-mail    NIHAnkara
Caroline DELAN (Project Manager)
+90 312 437 33 47
carolinedelan@nihankara.org
Applicant
Partners

Expert    NIHAnkara
Cappadocia Rotary Club, Ürgüp
Cappadocia Professional University, Mustafapaşa
Babayan Culture House, Ibrahimpaşa
Dr. Elif Asuman Korkusuz
Motive and needs

Rural areas in Cappadocia still lack wastewater treatment systems to prevent streams in the region and the Kızılırmak river basin from pollution. Some of the municipalities in Cappadocia have started the installation of sewerage systems and the construction of a Wastewater Treatment Plant in Nevşehir – with the support of EU. However, small villages still need wastewater treatment solutions that would respect and protect more the environment and boost the local economy as well. Ibrahimpaşa is a good example of an agricultural village with a population of 1000 PE in the region. Even though the village has the sewerage system to collect the wastewater, the wastewater treatment system is still missing. Thus, all of the collected domestic wastewater discharges without any treatment into the volcanic caves of the valley, which creates odor, insects and health problems especially during the summer time. The already existing creek within the valley is receiving the wastewater of the sewerage outlets of the village as well as the untreated wastewater produced by the neighbour Kavak Municipality with a population of 4000 PE. Local people have already expressed their strong need and willingness for a sustainable treatment system that would preserve their health, the nature and cultural sites.

The constructed wetland treatment technology is an ecological decentralized wastewater treatment system that can be successfully applied in rural areas with a population of less then 2000 PE. Its development and application in Turkey has already started among local authorities due to its lower capital and O/M cost, as well as their low energy consumption when compared to the conventional treatment plants. Moreover these artificial wetlands can enable the re-use of treated wastewater for irrigation and recreation purposes.

To build such a constructed wetland for wastewater treatment in Ibrahimpaşa, where the natural and cultural heritage needs extra care and protection, requires at first an inspection of the current situation by experts. Since awareness about wastewater treatment is lacking among most of the local people, it is believed that young people’s education on the issue and giving them responsibility for the operation and maintenance of the treatment system could guaranty a long term concern on wastewater issues and dissemination of the treatment method. Hence, this project will also involve local people – especially students from the region (Kapadokya Meslek Yüksekokulu in Mustafapaşa) for operation and maintenance of the proposed system and for monitoring purposes. Additionally, voluntary students of the Meslek Yüksekokulu, Organic Agriculture Department, will conduct scientific experiments on the production efficiency of the local organic agricultural products irrigated with treated wastewater. This outcome is also expected to clarify long-term effects of the treated wastewater on the quality and quantity of the local organic food.

Objectives

The project aims at solving the wastewater treatment problem in a pilot village in Cappadocia in an environment and culture-friendly way – to preserve the valley, its cave churches and the Health of its inhabitants. With the involvement of local communities (farmers, students, businesses, civil society, etc.), the project also aims at raising awareness about wastewater management and the re-use of treated wastewater to develop local economy (irrigation for agriculture for instance).
•    Nature and cultural sites preservation
•    Prevention of rivers’ pollution
•    Decreasing contamination risks
•    Rural socio-economic development
•    Promoting the re-use of treated wastewater
•    Disseminating the wetlands innovative technology
•    Raising local awareness about wastewater management
Target groups

The target groups are the 1000 inhabitants in Ibrahimpaşa, about 8 students from the organic agriculture department of Kapadokya Meslek Yüksekokulu in Mustafapaşa, 15 members of the Cappadocia Rotari Club, local authorities in Cappadocia (Nevşehir Governor, Ürgüp District Governors, Mayors of surrounding villages, and the Mukhtar of Ibrahimpaşa), and environmental and agricultural civil society organisations.
•    Farmers and local inhabitants in Cappadocia
•    Students and researchers in Cappadocia
•    Civil society and professional organisations in Cappadocia
•    Local authorities in Cappadocia
Activities

1.    Management and evaluation (10 months): coordinating the project’s activities; networking with the experts, partners and target groups; proposing corrective actions when necessary; getting feedbacks from locals through interviews and from students through their reports; drafting interim and final reports.
2.    Visibility strategy (10 months): filming the steps of the project; advertising the project through partners’ websites, leaflets, exhibition, and publications; inviting guest speakers at the final conference.
3.    Designing the constructed wetland (2 months): field studies to be conducted by the expert in Ibrahimpaşa to determine how and where exactly  to build the artificial wetland; drafting a feasibility study; workshop on the constructed wetland technology given by the Turkish and Dutch expert to some of the local students and in presence of Dutch students.
4.    Pre-construction awareness rising (2 months): preparing and providing lectures about the wastewater issues and the constructed wetland technology for locals; delivering training for local students to assist for the plantation of the wetland and the monitoring of the treatment performance of the wetland.
5.    Building the constructed wetland (4 months): mobilizing the necessary equipment and local human resources; conducting works together with participation of the local communities and with the assistance of local students; organizing a short field-study visit where students from Ankara and the Netherlands will see their peers assisting for the plantation part.
6.    Post-construction awareness rising (1 month): certifying local students for their training and experiments; broadcasting the project documentary; opening ceremony with local communities and authorities, and other students from the region (high schools and universities).

Human resources

1.    The project coordinator will be responsible for the overall coordination of the project, for ensuring the effective implementation of activities, and for evaluating the project.
2.    The communication adviser will be in charge of networking with locals and students, and of preparing visibility tools – especially in coordination with the film maker of KozaVisual.
3.    The eco-student group leader will organize at local level awareness raising activities about wastewater management in coordination with the expert of the project.
4.    The project expert on constructed wetland technology for wastewater treatment will lead the feasibility study, the trainings and the works to be conducted in Ibrahimpasa.

Expected results

Expected results according to the previously defined objectives are as follows::
-    Ibrahimpasa wastewater will be treated in an eco-technological and nature-friendly way
-    The constructed wetland system will be an ecological treatment example for other villages
-    The historical valley, the nature and locals’ health will be protected
-    Tourists will not hesitate to come to the village because of bad odors and insects
-    Awareness of young people and their families on environmental issues, especially on wastewater treatment, will be raised
-    Young people will take responsibilty in their local region for environmental problems
-    Young people will gain hope to solve their future environmental problems by themselves starting with small steps

Besides, some concrete outputs will be produced during the project such as booklets of the training curriculum, of the lecture for locals about wastewater, of the reports from students and interviews of locals, and of the developed model for feasibilty and construction of an artificial wetland in Cappadocia’s rural areas. A documentary based on the project will also be a tangible output for further awareness in the region and to motivate local decision-makers to replicate the project.

Social impact

As the project will involve local communities and will target as well local decision-makers, the expected social impact is quite deep. A social change, in mentalities and in habits, has to occur to ensure the full sustainability of the project and the preservation of local environment. Thus, social awareness will be created among all target groups. However, it has to be constantly monitored, deepened and refreshed especially for locals, who were not raised according to an “environmental-based” education.

The main obvious impact will be toward the very specific group of young people – namely the local students. They will have acquired a concrete and visible experience in project management and in local development assistance. The constructed wetland expert, who is a MS. Environmental Engineer and PhD. Biotechnology, will also encourage them to continue their involvement in the project – by being responsible for the monitoring of the constructed wetland. Their motivation will be higher when they will receive their certificate as recognition of a non-formal learning that they also can transfer on their own to their younger peers. They will also get a first glimpse of how collective action and environmental commitment can lead to greater personal skills development. The sharing-knowledge workshop with other students from Ankara and the Netherlands will also broaden their horizon and bring them new ideas and opinions about environmental-solution-based methods and techniques. Kapadokya Meslek Yüksekokulu (KMYO) has to ensure the transmission of these skills and ideas between generations of students by promoting peer-to-peer sessions, eco-student group leaders, and alumni associations.

There will also be an appropriation of the applied methodology and training by Kapadokya Rotary Club to target the local businesses and local authorities, and by the KMYO to be the local centre responsible for the operation, maintenance and monitoring of the performance of constructed wetland. Locals will also gain confidence in the efficiency of the created solution for their wastewater problem thanks to this involvement of civil society. The assumption for a durable quality of life of locals – when the constructed wetland will be maintained to work properly – is also the full support of local authorities and their willingness to trust the work to be done by civil society.

Sustainability

The financial and institutional sustainability will be ensured by the local authorities – including the governorship and municipalities – and by the local partners of the project – namely the Cappadocia Rotary Club and Cappadocia Professional University (KMYO).

The maintenance of the constructed wetland will be conducted by the trained students from KMYO, who will also monitor the treatment performance of the wetland and conduct experiments on organic food production with the treated effluent.

Further works to be conducted will be under the responsability of the District Governorship. The developed model – feasibility study according to the specific feature of the rural area and involvment of local communities in the construction and maintenance – will also be re-used by local partners for other surrounding villages to make sure that this pilot project leads to a wider-spread solution for wastewater treatment in the region. To this respect, environmental and agricultural civil society organisations and the Rotary Club will be the key organisations to ensure sustainability at policy level – to convince local authorities to implement the model.

 

Best regards,

 

 

Ms. Caroline Delan
Project Manager

EU Affairs Counsellor
—
NIHAnkara
Netherlands Institute for Higher Education
Koza Sokak 111, 06700 G.O.P. Ankara , Turkey
Tel:  +90 (312) 437 33 47 - ext: 12

Fax: +90 (312) 437 33 42
E-mail: carolinedelan@nihankara.org

Website: http://www.nihankara.org 

Next thing to check about some basic information about the water..This site is official site of the International Year of Freshwater 2003! It’s a bit old informations, but you can go inside and see a concept..

http://www.wateryear2003.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=1456&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html

and this site- OPTIMA, is shorter name for Optimisation for Sustainable
Water Resources Management, and they are dealing with the questions concerning the water in Turkey..

http://www.ess.co.at/OPTIMA/

I still don’t have an idea for the project, and I’m really looking forward for the next meeting, and discussion in May at DAI…
in the meantime I think that Kevin’s idea to call Madonna to pray with us for the water in Cappadocia is really good idea!! Hihi , I would like to see that…

Only thing which is certain until now is that Marina and me have idea for the performance in Cappadocia, and maybe it will be connected with the water…but we are still thinking about this option…

Dear DAI, or should I say dear Cappadocia people!

I find something about this issue, but in South Florida (Water Management District). You can find out more about water quality, flood control, water supply, ecosystem restoration etc..

You can check it on: http://www.sfwmd.gov/portal/page?_pageid=2754,19862620&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL

And this also.. I find this about the Turkey and water waste, actually, it was “actions” with schools and kids..maybe we can work something with young people?…I don’t know…

Eco-Schools Competitions: “Eco-Code” and “Eco-Project”
Eco-Schools in Turkey will have two challenging tasks this year, besides the environmental problems they are coping with! FEE Turkey decided to organise two competitions at national level. One of the competitions is the well-known Eco-Code competition, already been implemented in Portugal. The Turkish version of the competition is slightly different from the Portuguese one, requiring one eco-code sentence from each of the themes implemented in Turkey, namely litter & waste, energy, and water. However, we tried to keep the standards similar in order to prevent any difficulties in case the competition is transferred to an international level by the international coordination, as discussed in the Eco-Schools National Programme Managers meeting in Edinburgh. The other so-called “Eco-Project competition” aims to activate schools to develop innovative eco-schools studies against environmental problems they are facing, not only in their schools, but also in their community. The word “project” does not refer to a scientific study, but the whole concept of reporting to the coordination:

* how an action against an environmental problem started?,
* which method(s) are implemented to overcome the problem?,
* and what are the results achieved at the end of the study?.

The project is thought to be beneficial for encouraging pupils to develop innovative tasks against environmental problems and increasing their abilities to work in a project team and to report back their studies. The competition will also activate and revive the studies in the schools, which are not applying for the green flag for the current year. The deadlines for the competitions are determined as the end of March for Eco-Code and mid of May for the Eco-Project competitions. Results of both will be announced at the end of May, and awards will be presented in the National Green Flag Award Ceremony.

(November 2002)

		Eco-Schools Festival in Ankara, Turkey At the end of the 2003-2004 school year, project activities accelerated in Turkey. On 29 May, 2004 an “Eco-Schools Festival” took place in Ankara with the participation of 12 schools! They exhibited their projects, pictures, handworks made of wastes, photographs of activities and children played dramas giving messages about protection of environment, singing and dancing. There were two competitions at the festival, one was among schools and it was the “Stand Competition” and the other one was among children and it was the “Picture Competition” (pictures which were painted by children during the festival were evaluated). As prizes, we gave education technology sets provided from Mobilsoft Mobile Information and Communication Technologies Inc., which was one of our sponsors for the festival. Other supporters were the Ministry of National Education - General Directorate of Primary Education, Ankara Metropolitan Municipality, Ankara Cankaya Municipality, Nobel Marketing Inc. and The Chamber of Architects of Turkey. Through the festival, schools had the chance to share all Eco-Schools activities with public and it was a great chance for us to introduce Eco-Schools to the city! Similar festivals will be carried out in Bursa and Eskisehir too in the coming days! All those festivals are done for the first time, and we aim to make them a tradition!

Sorry, now is maybe to much..Ok, all this is just a product of surfing through the internet, and I ‘m not so sure that it can help at all, but, who knows, maybe somebody will have an idea how to “start” this process..

Dear people,

I find today something about Marilyn Arsem (she is, and she was very important in the beginning of performance art),please check http://marilynarsem.net , and please click on projects, and then on 1999 “CLEAR WATER”.

I think it can be very interesting to see..