On World Day for the Prevention of Natural Disasters, it was reported that this year alone US$120,000 was lost worldwide.
In the first half of 2023, the natural disasters derived from climate change cost no less than US$120,000 million worldwide, according to the insurance provider group Swiss Re.
Likewise, the company indicated that “Latin America and the Caribbean are the most impacted regions” due to natural disasters.
“So far in 2023 alone, there are 7 major natural disasters in the regionamong which are the fires in Chile, the droughts in Uruguay, and the floods in Argentina, among others,” he said.
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Uruguay, from the worst drought to abundant water and floods in a few weeks
Nails 40,000 people had supply problems and there were hundreds of families evacuated due to the rise of the rivers
Just two months ago, the news about the drought in Uruguay was alarming. Fresh water reserves were scarce and what came out of the taps in homes in Montevideo and its surroundings was salty. The government of Luis Lacalle Pou warned that the country was a few days away from running out of drinking water and was rushing palliative works to go through the worst stage of the water deficit. A Chilean company presented a “cloud seeding” model to increase rainfall, Argentina offered a ship with a tanker to alleviate the crisis and Lacalle Pou and Alberto Fernández They had a public discussion about this issue.
That news seems to have been left behind when the rain returned to its usual levels in the following months, which allowed the reserves to reach their normal levels and the government to repeal the water emergency that he had decreed.
What rain fell in August represented one and a half times more than expected for the entire month and the volumes recorded had not been seen since the beginning of 2020. The good news that represented the end of the water crisis has a critical flipside: the possibility of floods.
“It is an important risk that we are going to have in these coming months, starting in September, due to the influence of the warm phase of The boy. The month of October may be the most critical in terms of localized flooding events,” the meteorologist warned. Mario Bidegain.
Source: Ambito
