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In the early years of Republic, the need of the cities for drinking water in Turkey was met by foundations as in Ottoman period. However, in the periods of regression and collapse of Ottoman Empire, the foundation system was degenerated. The foundations couldn’t meet the need of the cities for drinking water properly. So the duty to meet the need of the cities and towns for drinking water was transfered to municipalities by ‘Water Law’ in 1926. The municipility taking on that important task failed to meet the need for drinking water of town people till the midst of 1930s. In the period mentioned, central government stepped in. In 1937, the need of the city for drinking water was conveyed to Atatürk in the course of his coming to Trabzon. The issue of meeting the need of the city for drinking water was tackled seriously by designing drinking water project in consequence of Atatürk’s instruction. For this purpose, a project was designed to transfer the underground water which was to be removed from the around Değirmendere, to city with pipes . The construction finished in 1941 and the city reached the water. The name Atasu was given to that plumbing. However, it was attempted to construct a dam over Galyan Stream in 1984 because of inadequacy of water being got from that plumbing. The ‘Atasu Dam’ which was constructed there was completed in 2011 and so Trabzon attained a new drinking water installation

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