Lake Düden plan of Kulu municipality to build roads to and around the lake, and to afforest the lake's surrounding would be a threat for the breeding birds. Another important issue is the poaching. In 2010, the district administration undertook measures to save the lake by builing a waste water treatment facility and preventing unlawful water usage from the creek. Lake Düden Lake Düden, also known as Lake Kulu, ( or "Kulu Gölü"), is a brackish water lake in Konya Province, Turkey. Lake Düden is located northwest of Lake Tuz and east of Kulu town in Konya Province at an elevation of
Lake Tuz Natural Gas Storage salt formation covers an area of . It is long and around thick. It has a salt dome structure. To create the caverns in the salt formation, fresh water was brought by pipeline from Hirfanlı Dam at distance. Using the process of solution mining, water was injected through a borehole into the salt formation, and the saline water, which is formed after dissolution of salt in water, was pumped back to the surface leaving a void in the formation. The salt water was transported to far away Lake Tuz by pipeline. Gas pressure inside the storage is nearly . The