Environmental Indicators
Environmental Indicators
6.10- Municipalities Served by Sewerage Systems

The indicator is a response indicator that represents the percentage of the municipal population served by the sewerage system out of the total municipal population.

The share of the municipal population served by the sewerage system out of the total municipal population was set at percent 91.1for the year 2020. The total number of municipalities is 1389 and the number of municipalities connected to the sewerage system is 1362 (percent 98 of municipalities) in 2020.

The average daily per capita volume of wastewater discharged by municipalities through the sewerage system increased from 126 liters in 1994 to 189 liters in 2012[51].

 

GRAPH 80- RATIO OF POPULATION AND MUNICIPALITIES SERVED BY SEWERAGE SYSTEMS (%)

 

TABLE 11- RATIO OF POPULATION AND MUNICIPALITIES SERVED BY SEWERAGE SYSTEMS (%)

YEARS

1994

1998

2002

2004

2006

2008

2010

2012

2014

2016

2018

2020

Rate of Population Served by Sewerage Systems in the Total Population of the Municipality (%)

 

 

69

 

 

78

 

 

83

 

 

86

 

 

87

 

 

88

 

 

88

 

 

92

 

 

90

 

 

90

 

 

90.7

 

 

91.1

Rate of the Number of Municipalities Served by Sewerage System to the Total Number of Municipalities (%)

 

 

43

 

 

58

 

 

66

 

 

69

 

 

72

 

 

75

 

 

76

 

 

78

 

 

94

 

 

96

 

 

97

 

 

98

Average Daily Amount of Wastewater Discharged per Person (liter/capitaday)

 

126

 

154

 

154

 

174

 

181

 

173

 

182

 

190

 

181

 

183

 

188

 

189

Source: TURKSTAT, “Municipal Wastewater Statistics, 2020”