In the News of Euronews and Other Media Regularly Show Terrible Pictures of Floods of Various Rivers with Destruction and Victims

Abstract

Oleg Khalidullin

The latest are in South Korea, Spain - Valencia, in America - the states of Texas and New Mexico, Nigeria, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, China, Kazakhstan, St. Petersburg.

The main cause of floods is called heavy rains, destruction of dams. However, the state of the river bottom profile is not taken into account. Rivers have the property of continuously and inevitably changing their channel, decreasing depth. Every minute, day after day, year after year, particles of soil are torn off from the banks and accumulate on the bottom of the river. The life of the population of coastal settlements has brought even more sediment. Remains of building materials, erosion of soil by rainwater, garbage, various waste - all this is dumped and flows into the rivers and raises the bottom. There are no natural mechanisms for maintaining the depth of rivers. In addition to destroying roads and buildings, flood waters flood vast territories and create artificial evaporation, which changes sedimentation, which in turn affects the climate of the entire planet. (to-preserve-climate-humanity-must-change- their-attitude-to-water-and-rivers.pdf). The main user of rivers is humanity. And it must reconsider its attitude to rivers. This relationship is known for its absolute indifference, except for extracting electricity from the waters of blocked channels to rotate the turbines of electric generators.

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