Management of water services in maincities: A field-work research in Ankara

In management and treatment of water services in cities, analysing the applied structure and working of Water and Sewerage Administrations (which were constituted by the year 1981) in 16 maincities today, is the main purpose of this study. In accordance with this purpose, the water history of the cities and changeable qualifications and elements of water services are been tried to define. The study, beside these theoretical information, has a field-work which is intended to measure the pleasure level of citizens of Ankara about the water services.In the study, metropolitans in Turkey were been searched, the metropolitans of the world were not been mentioned. For the water services,drinking water and utility water services were been mentioned directly. So sewerage services were not been told.Another limitedness in the study is emphasising metropolitan municipalities only and not incorporating other municipalities and villages.Water is a limited resource and the value imputed to `Water? is now changed. Water, beside being seen as a natural need like food and sheltering, is a resource which has an increasing strategic importance. So water has been transported to the international dimension and there is effect of international politics on it. Water is not a classic service which is presented by government anymore; reached the station that must been marketed to the customer. Privatization applications which reflect on local governments services, exercised influence over water services,too. However,there hadn?t been an incrase in property of quality of the water services and water prices didn?t become cheaper,either.These are general results rise from consequence of field-work: More than a half of the citizens are in distrust to the city water supply. They have hesitation about the quality and sanitary of the water and prefer packed, commercial water as drinking water. The idea of higness and unfairness of water bills dominates almost all of the citizens. The citizens who live in Ankara, think that the main responsibility belong to Ankara Metropolitan Municipality beside the main actor who is related to presented water services, Ankara Water and Sewerage Administration.Key Words :1.Water Services2.Drinking and Utility Water3.Water and Sewerage Administrations4.AWSA-IWSA5.Commercial Water