Konya, whose history dates back 2000 years, is the most important city of Central Anatolia. Konya and its surroundings are located in the closed basin of Konya. Its water sources are Lake Tuz, Beyşehir, Suğla, Ilgın and Akşehir  Çarşamba, Merem and Melendiz streams. Irrigation channels and drinking water facilities that give life to the economy are particularly important in a settlement. Great importance has been attached to the establishment of irrigation structures in the Konya Plain since the first settlement.

Historical water structures in and around Konya were built starting from the Neolithic era, during the Hittite, Phrygian, Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, Seljuk, and Ott...