Water Management

Water and Wastewater Management at Türk Telekom

Our sustainability approach highly attends to the planned and controlled use of water resources, which are of critical importance for the environment and the continuity of human life. We are committed to preventing, reducing, or eliminating significant environmental effects arising from our operations. We set certain annual water-saving targets to carefully manage our water Water and Wastewater Management consumption and carry out operations in accordance with these targets. The water we use in our buildings for the basic needs of our employees is not taken directly from the water source but through the city water networks, and we regularly report our water consumption on an annual basis. Water is necessary for the uninterrupted continuity of our services; hence, we adopt proactive approaches in water management to save on water usage and recycle wastewater. To use water efficiently, we implement environmentally friendly practices such as intelligent irrigation systems, photocell batteries, grey water systems, and rainwater collection units. We also aim to reduce water consumption by reducing the number of water-using locations through building centralisation efforts.

Water Saving and Management

We implement a variety of initiatives that save water in our office buildings. In this context, we implement measures such as the use of water-saving sanitary ware and fixtures, the float setting of toilet cisterns to ensure that each flush is conducted at a minimum level, and the efficient and controlled irrigation of gardens through irrigation automation systems. Furthermore, we have made a significant contribution to the reduction of water consumption in buildings and offices by reducing the amount of building and office space used through building centralisation and space optimisation projects. On the other hand, we also act with the awareness of effective use of water and water saving in our data centres. At this point, we use a rainwater recovery system in our Esenyurt data centre and a fogging system to minimise the water consumption of the outdoor units of DX cooling units in our Ümitköy data centre, and we try to ensure the continuity of our water saving measures.

Our water consumption decreased to 438 thousand m3 in 2023 from 470 thousand m3 in 2022. This reduction shows the effectiveness of our proactive approaches and saving measures we have adopted in water management.

Wastewater Management

In wastewater management, our priority is to recycle the water resulting from human use in our operations and to discharge it in accordance with environmental standards. Wastewater discharge from Türk Telekom buildings is compliant with the minimum requirements set by Turkish Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, General Directorate of State Hydraulic Works (DSİ) and local water and sewerage authorities (SKİ). We act in a way that meets the standards we apply in central locations for wastewater discharges in all our facilities and do not exceed the water consumption limits established by these organisations. In addition, wastewater collected from tea stoves and sinks in the Ankara Headquarters Tower Building is reused in toilet reservoirs after the necessary treatment processes.