Current situation about drought in Turkey

Yıl 2017, Cilt: 2 Sayı: 1(3) - Volume 2, Issue 1(3), 122 - 129, 01.06.2017

Emine Su Turan

Öz

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.  

 

Anahtar Kelimeler

Current situation about drought in Turkey

Kaynakça

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