Will Portugal be one of the “most dangerous countries by extreme drought and water”?
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According to a report by the Associação de Natureza de Portugal of October 2019, since the 1970s in Portugal it is “increasingly frequent that in Portugal [os] years with lower than average years”, and increasingly rare, very rainy years”. The Instituto Português do Mar (IPMA) recorded, in the last 65 years, “stands out from drought with greater severity”, with the period from 194 to 1946, “the longest” period of drought in mainland Portugal, and from 2004 to 2006, the “most intense” dry period.
The phenomenon tends to get worse, according to the IPMA source, who, in the most recent statements, indicates that the most recent reports, namely the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), “point to an increase in the trend from around 2% to 40% in terms of mainland Portugal, more specifically in periods of drought. But the temperature impacts associated with a single source of increase, which also contributes to the “drying of the soils”, .
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Portugal is as well as regions that will be best known for extreme drought, Spain, southern France and Italy.
Conclusion: True