THE OUTPUT AFTER COMPLETION OF GAP

When the project is completed plants to be built on the Euphrates and Tigris rivers which together flow more than 50 billion cubic metres of water annually will regulate 28 percent of Turkey's total water potential.

More than 1.7 million hectares of land will be irrigated and 27 billion kW of electric energy will annually be produced by an installed capacity of over 7,460 MW. "Agricultural and industrial, potential to be created by GAP will increase the level of income in the region by 5 folds" and some 3.5 million of the regional population expected to go beyond 9 million in the year 2005 will find employment opportunities.

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