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Disastrous floods after prolonged droughts have challenged Iran

By maria [dot] lofstedt [at] cme [dot] lu [dot] se (Maria Löfstedt) - published 3 July 2019

Heavy rainfall and flooding in late March and early April 2019 affected millions of people in Iran, caused deaths, displacement and catastrophic damage to the infrastructure.

The historic Kashkan bridge was damaged in the recent flood.
The historic Kashkan bridge was damaged in the recent flood.

This is happening while the country has long suffered from frequent droughts and adaptive management practices are not in place to deal with such fluctuations.

Read more in this guest piece in Utvecklingsmagasinet by CMES Hasan Hosseini who is visiting researcher at CMES; Lund University and a PhD candidate in Water Resources Engineering at Tabriz University. His research focuses on adaptive water management under uncertainty of predictions, remote sensing of rainfall, and extreme hydrology.

The historic Kashkan bridge was damaged in the recent flood. Photo by: Ali Mostafanezhad

 

2019-07-03

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