Tekirdağ Namık Kemal University Engineering Faculty Faculty Member Prof. Dr. Sinan Şahin, predicting that hot and arid steppe climate will become widespread across Turkey from the year 2050 onwards, drew attention to the serious risks to water resources and drinking water quality. Şahin, a visiting researcher at the Department of Geography at Justus Liebig University in Germany, who works on climate change and drought, examined the effects of climate change in Turkey and the Europe-Mediterranean region for 9 months in his scientific study conducted under the "International Researcher Programs" supported by the Higher Education Council. The study was conducted in a wide area covering the Mediterranean Basin, which includes Turkey, as well as North Africa and northern Europe. The research used Era5-Land reanalysis data for the years 1950-2024, General Circulation Models for future climate predictions, and NASA Earth Exchange Global Daily downscaled prediction (NEX-GDDP-CMIP6) data. ...