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Temperatures reached 39 degrees Celsius on Wednesday, leading to the highest ever recorded daily water consumption in the metropolis.

The fill rate has neared 45 percent from 28 percent earlier in the year.

Two dams providing İstanbulites with water, the Pabuçdere and Kazandere dams in Kırklareli, have almost run dry as a result of drought as well as the zoning of their basins for construction and the damages to forest ecosystems.

While the fill rate of İstanbul’s dams was over 80 percent in April, it has now been measured as 46.26 percent. The loss of water over the past week has been nearly 10 million cubic meters.

The city's water administration announced that the water levels in the city's dams declined to 21.78 percent.

The increase in floods and landslides in recent years is caused by hydroelectric plants, roads and dams.

Following the death of 5 people in a dam reservoir in the southeastern province of Siirt, bianet contacted Cumhur Kılıççıoğlu, a local journalist, who claimed that at least 20 to 30 drowned since the dam reservoir was established.

The UN Economic, Social and Cultural Committee determined several violations of human rights by the construction of dams and hydroelectric power plants. The Committee called on the Turkish government to urgently review according laws and regulations.