A drought has been declared in the southwest of Wales after a prolonged heat wave. This was announced on Friday, August 19, by the Natural Resources Wales (NRW).
“After an extended period of dry weather, the Natural Resources Wales Agency has confirmed that the trigger threshold has been passed for declaring a drought in southwest Wales,” it said. message.
The agency stressed that the public and businesses in drought-affected areas must be mindful of the pressure on water resources and use water wisely.
The rest of Wales also remains dry, NRW said.
On August 11, The Times wrote that a heat wave in the UK could affect the increase in the excess death rate. It was noted that in the coming days in some regions of the kingdom the temperature will reach +37 degrees.
On August 4, in the UK, the source of the Thames dried up for the first time in history as a result of a drought due to high temperatures. The frequency and severity of droughts and water shortages will increase in a changing climate, according to Rivers Trust policy and science director Rob Collins.
July 2022 was one of the hottest in Europe on record, according to materials on the website of the European Union’s Earth observation program Copernicus. Temperature records have been broken, in particular, in France, Portugal, Ireland, Sweden and the UK.
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