Transformer Captured by Electric Company Troopers

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 15 June 2015)



Appropriate technology... and you can't beat the price. 

Teams from the Dicle Elektrik Dağıtım Anonim Şirketi
(Dicle Electric Company/ DEDAŞ) have seized an illegal
electrical transformer that was loaded on to a tractor's trailer
in Diyarbakır's Bismil district.  As the agricultural irrigation
season has begun, the illegal use of electricity has risen,
as well.

Determined to head off this practice, DEDAŞ found the
jerry-rigged transformer apparatus hidden away deep in a corn
field in Bayındır vıllage.  The transformer was attached by a
cable thrown on to an overhead high-tension wire that passes
over the field and was being used to irrigate the 10 acre field
with as much energy as a small village would use.


Bismil district is in southeastern Diyarbakır province.