WATER PRICING : ISSUES AND OPTIONS IN TURKEY

The paper discusses global importance of water pricing and analyses the existing institutions and legal frame-works for irrigation water pricing in Turkey. In view of the gradually expanding large irrigation infrastructure in the South-eastern Anatolia Project region of Turkey, it makes a case for the adoption of full organization and management cost recovery for irrigation water supplies and the establishment of a volumetric system of billing in place of the present crop and area system.