Urban areas, home to over half of the world’s 8 billion people, are warming faster than rural regions and are particularly threatened by water-related natural disasters, according to research by the international charity WaterAid. The organization’s study examined over 100 major cities where climate patterns have significantly changed over the past four decades.
WaterAid’s Global International Affairs Director Katherine Nightingale told DW, “I assumed dry places were getting drier and wet places wetter, but what surprised me most was that many cities are experiencing a complete change in what they were used to managing.”
Cities such as Cairo, Madrid, Hong Kong, and Saudi Arabian cities Riyadh and Jeddah—once prone to floods—now struggle with drought. Meanwhile, traditionally dry cities in India, Colombia, Nigeria, and Pakistan are now likely to experience flooding.
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Source: https://www.dw.com/en/cities-are-adapting-to-increased-flooding-and-drought/a-71889585?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf
