Current situation about drought in Turkey

Abstract

In terms of the up-to-date climate conditions, the effects of global climatic change in show up as the decrease in water resources, drought, heat waves, increase in floods, and decrease in agriculture in Turkey. Especially the decreasing precipitation and increasing temperatures in the weather in some regions cause serious drought and water scarcity problems. Drought may be observed in every climatic region all over the world even in rainy regions. It is the most complicated one among the natural disasters, and affect more people when compared with the other disasters.

Since Turkey is located in a sub-arid climatic region, it may face the risk of drought frequently. It is expected that there will occur changes in the severity and duration of droughts with the effect of climatic changes in excessive temperature distribution in Turkey. As a result, it is predicted that vaporization will increase, heat waves will cause more deaths and forest fires, and together with these, the drought will be more severe and may be experienced in wider areas in a more frequent manner. Decreases in water levels, agricultural products, pasture and forest products, and increases in fires, in death rates of the animals bred in farms and wild animals, will be observed among the direct effects of drought together with the damages in wildlife and fish species on the environment.  

 

Keywords

• Current situation about drought in Turkey

References

1. Emine Su Turan
2. Department of Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & Architecture, Cukurova University, 01330, Balcali/Adana, Turkey Tel: [phone] e-mail: [e-mail]