Water

The Agriculture and Forestry Ministry is planning to use a new "sponge city" concept that absorbs rain waters within the scope of water efficiency measures on a national scale.

Within this scope, ecological infrastructure and drainage systems will be created in cities, and roadsides or sidewalks will be covered with surface coatings that allow water to pass through.

A bid to remove three faux galleons erected in the Vardar river a decade ago has run aground, leaving behind an unsightly reminder of the megalomania of a fugitive former PM.

Droughts of different intensities are observed in all basins in Türkiye, an Agriculture and Forestry Ministry official has said.

Italy is often plagued by drought during the summer months, and last year a "state of emergency" was declared in several regions due to the worst drought that has hit the country in the last 70 years, reports Euractiv.
This year, the situation is expected to worsen as the country experienced extremely low rainfall during the winter.

Atmospheric pressure will slightly decrease and will be lower than average.

As the precipitation increased by 53 percent in March, if the precipitation is regular and sufficient in April and May, the country will not experience agricultural drought in summer, the Agriculture and Forestry Ministry has announced.

In the eastern Black Sea region, the instability in the precipitations caused by global warming leads to soil movements, and sudden and localized precipitation brings the danger of floods and landslides, an expert has warned.

A yellow code for strong wind has been announced for 9 regions, the NIMH website shows - Montana, Vratsa, Pleven, Lovech, Gabrovo, Veliko Tarnovo, Ruse, Pazardzhik and Plovdiv.

In these areas, northwesterly winds blow with gusts up to 20-22 m/s. In the evening the wind will weaken.

Within the scope of the efforts to minimize water problems that may arise in the coming period, the Agriculture and Forestry Ministry has prepared a set of guidelines to reduce water consumption in the hospitality industry as the tourism season begins.

The average number of days with heavy snow in Türkiye was 28.4 days in the last 50 years, but the number has dropped to 2.5 days this year, experts stated.

Namık Kemal University Çorlu Engineering Faculty Dean Prof. Dr. Lokman Hakan Tecer said that there has been a significant decrease in snowfall in Türkiye recently.