"Current Problems and Solution Tools in Urban Water Management" panel was organized by Union of Marmara Municipalities within the scope of IFAT Eurasia International Environmental Technologies Specialization Fair on Thursday, April 27, 2023.

General Managers of the water and sewerage administrations of six metropolitan municipalities in the Marmara Region, Gürsel Erul, Deputy Director General for Environmental Management at the Ministry of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change, and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Özgen Ercan, Leader of the Water Management and Treatment Technologies Research Group at the TUBITAK Marmara Research Center (MAM) Climate Change and Sustainability Directorate, participated in the panel held at Istanbul Tüyap Fair and Congress Center as speakers.

In the panel, the general managers of the water and sewerage administrations in the Marmara Region discussed the current problems they face in water management systems and the solutions they have developed together with the participants.

TÜBİTAK MAM Works in Cooperation with Municipalities and Water and Sewerage Administrations

In his speech at the panel, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Özgen Ercan, Leader of Water Management and Treatment Technologies Research Group at TÜBİTAK Marmara Research Center (MAM) Climate Change and Sustainability Directorate, stated that they have developed many functional tools and products for municipalities and their affiliated water and sewerage administrations.

Stating that they offer solution tools in all processes of water, including energy-positive facilities, as well as measurement, planning and project design options related to the unique situations of cities on a basin basis with a primarily water protection approach, Ercan said that they carry out an Integrated Marine Pollution Monitoring Program and work in close cooperation with water and sewerage administrations and municipalities.