Perché il Belgio dovrebbe avere il rischio più elevato? Qualcuno può spiegare?
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di reditt13
Perché il Belgio dovrebbe avere il rischio più elevato? Qualcuno può spiegare?
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di reditt13
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Maybe it is linked to how we deal with water. We dont collect it, we ship it as fast as possible to the ocean.
I don’t know the answer, however I do know that water is officially “scarce” in Flanders, and everything is polluted
The explanation I always heard was that Belgium (specifically Flanders) is largely paved (verhard), which means that not enough rainwater can seep into the ground sufficiently and instead simply flows away to the rivers and then the sea. When it becomes warmer and drier for a while (almost every summer) , the groundwater level drops drastically and water is scarce, resulting in a drought.
“Our[ data shows that 25 countries](https://www.wri.org/research/aqueduct-40-updated-decision-relevant-global-water-risk-indicators) are currently exposed to extremely high water stress annually, meaning they use over 80% of their renewable water supply for irrigation, livestock, industry and domestic needs. Even a short-term drought puts these places in danger of running out of water and sometimes prompts governments to shut off the taps.”
[source condensed](https://files.wri.org/d8/s3fs-public/2023-08/aqueduct-40-technical-note.pdf?VersionId=G_TxTR2LAnlgXGzy7xtdUP_5lmkXJY7d)/ [Source paper](https://www.wri.org/research/aqueduct-40-updated-decision-relevant-global-water-risk-indicators)
Basically, we use a shit ton of water and we have few places where we gather a reserve. Remember the groundwater problem a few years back. once that is gone from a troublesome few years, we’re relatively fucked.
it is not linked to “floods from icecaps melting”, if that’s what your wondering.
it’s linked to how much water we use vs how big our reserves are. we don’t really have that covered well.
When it does rain, we make sure the water gets carried off to the sea as fast as possible. Lots of hardened surfaces, and rivers and streams that go in a (mostly) straight line to the sea. This makes it harder to replenish ground water levels.
On top of that there’s a lot of ground water being extracted by farmers, not always legally. This puts an extra strain on the ground water levels.
Should be noted that they are talking about *water stress* here, defined as the availability of fresh water in relation to the demand. Us being one of the most developed regions in the world, where the water demand for people is very high due to high population density, combined with demand from industry and agriculture, is a very important factor for this.
Also lack of major rivers and espescially water runoff due to the relatively high degree of verharding combined with this contributes to us being top of the class here
70% of earth is water, yet it will be hard to get some by 2050.
Stop believing parasite politicians, we live in a world where everything needs to be monetized.
And don’t reply with “ThErEs iS sALt iN SeA wAtEr AnD YoU cAn’T dRiNk ThAt.”
We’re structurally using more groundwater than we can replenish and have been doing so for decades.
Note this is also a ‘projected’ scenario based on some sort of models that we have no idea how they work nor how accurate they are. So I would honestly take things like this with a grain of salt,