Every Saturday, hydrologist Emma Haziza and journalist Salomé Saqué offer you a lucid meeting on the environment. In this new episode, they explain the phenomenon of floods and floods, which is intensifying at the rate of global warming.
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After a scorching summer, Hérault and Gard were hit by torrential rains, to the point of going into red alert. This is only the beginning of a dreaded period this year: that of floods and floods. However, the human and material damage that this implies could largely be avoided.
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Heavy rainfall, which encounters very dry soil unable to absorb all the water, could well lead to particularly heavy flooding in this year 2022, marked by drought in France. Under these conditions, it is particularly important to inform the populations who are in areas at risk, to learn how to react in the event of danger.
The gestures are simple, and could avoid recurring accidents and deaths: do not take the car, do not pick up your children from school, never go underground, or in your cellar, or in an underground car park. … Once in the shelter, follow the evolution of the situation via the radio or social networks. The massive dissemination of this information would make it possible to develop a “culture of risk” which must be coupled with smarter urbanization: we should no longer build in flood-prone areas.