Forecasting a hot, dry futureAn innovative monitoring technology is helping the world’s driest region predict and manage the impacts of drough...
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An innovative monitoring technology is helping the world’s driest region predict and manage the impacts of drought.
Kira Walker
Agadir, Morocco
Agadir, Morocco
Ayoubag/ CC BY-SA 4.0
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is the driest region in the world and home to 12 of the world’s most water-scarce countries, with water availability per person roughly six times less than the global average. Rising temperatures and evaporation rates, combined with reductions in precipitation across the region, are exacerbating challenges to water and food security. In recent years, droughts have become more frequent, extensive and severe, degrading land and jeopardising health, livelihoods and economies. Droughts and their impacts are expected to intensify as climate change worsens.
The International Water Management Institute (IWMI) has now developed a drought monitoring and preparedness programme for the region in collaboration with governments in Jordan, Lebanon and Morocco. MENAdrought aims to improve local capacities and implement ways to more effectively anticipate, prepare for and mitigate the impacts of drought.
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https://www.natureasia.com/en/nmiddleeast/article/10.1038/nmiddleeast.2022.60Taxonomy
- Drought
- Drought Modelling