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Between Extreme Droughts and Floods - What is happening ?

29 Jan 2023

giant-iceberg-breaks-off-near-antarctica-research- The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) said the formation of the new iceberg was not due to climate change – which is accelerating the loss of sea ice in the Arctic and parts of Antarc- tica – but to a natural process called “calving”. [...] But on the Eu- ropean side of the Atlantic, the weather has been balmy for many places at the start of the year. [...] The decrease in the water in the dams and the lack of water savings are pushing the city toward a crisis, according to the statements of the General Directorate of Meteo- rology. [...] The precipitation will be be- “While the water management of the cities primarily low average in the next three reduces the loss and leakage rate in the networks, the months, the experts recom- water apparatus in residences should be replaced with a mended that citizens be war- more efficient versions. [...] uld be irrigated with treated wastewater possib- le.”Saying that he foresees the drought continuing for Dursun Yildiz, the head of the Hydropolitics Asso- the long term, Yildiz called on consumers and mana- ciation, highlighted that the precipitation that has gers to create awareness about the conservation of been below normal due to the climate crisis in re- water.“It seems that our country will.

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