ISTANBUL WATER SUPPLY

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The Istanbul Water Supply Project will provide assistance in the preparation of an integrated program designed to meet the urban development needs of the Istanbul Metropolitan Area. It will include the preparation of priority projects: (a) a project to provide basic urban infrastructure for existing squatter settlements and future low-cost residential areas, (b) an urban cluster to form the nucleus for planned urban expansion along the proposed Istanbul-Izmit Highway, (c) a wholesale market relocation project to relieve congestion in the central city and to improve market efficiency, (d) a wastewater disposal project, (e) a traffic engineering and control project to improve at low cost the use of the existing urban transport system, and (f) an urban transport/land use model to be used by Turkish authorities in future years as an investment decision making tool. The preparation of the project has been coordinated with a project to alleviate the existing water supply need of Istanbul.