Ten recommendations about floods in the north of the country
Kaveh Madani
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1- Avoid rushing to analyze a complex phenomenon. The analysis of #Golestan_Mazandaran_Flood needs a detailed scientific study.
2- Instead of fighting to find the culprit, let’s focus now on saving the injured.
3- Record our field and scientific observations for future investigations and replication.
4- Due to the danger of #floods in other parts of the country, by using the capacity of virtual media and informing and warning, we should inform our fellow countrymen about the danger. Let’s not forget that during Nowruz, many people are not informed about the news.
5- The statistical information about the floods is still conflicting and even the Ministry of Energy has provided different statistics. The volume of water has been high, but the high damage in these conditions is usually rooted in the lack of damage prevention policies and #crisis_management.
6- Complex phenomena have many factors. Therefore, we should not underestimate the role of climate fluctuations, extreme events caused by climate change, land use change, forest destruction, tree cutting, encroachment on river boundaries, not dredging waterways, bad reservoir management, not taking into account forecasts, wrong development in the downstream. The dam, the improper design of the railway line, the lack of information and relief and other issues were neglected.
7- Avoid expropriation for the sake of #Flood_Golestan_Mazandaran. To say that dams have prevented worse is an opportunistic fallacy. If there was no dam, the development map of the region and the distribution of the population would be different. In addition, the bad management of reservoirs can be one of the main factors of the incident.
8- Don’t be greedy. Floods and droughts are natural phenomena that will always exist. So let’s not rely on the flood story to look for more dams and let’s not forget how we complained about the lack of water last year. The occurrence of floods and droughts does not solve the problem of #water_bankruptcy. We still need a serious reduction in consumption.
9- Don’t have a short-term memory and don’t forget the tragedy that happened with another bad event in the country. It is necessary to learn from the mistakes that have happened and to rebuke the experts and bad managers so that such incidents do not happen again.
10- The water will probably recede soon in the north and the relief operation will end, but the living conditions of the people in the region will not return to the previous state for a long time. Therefore, it is necessary to keep the sensitivity factor of the society and virtual space high towards the condition of the victims after the end of the critical situation.
@KavehMadani
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