According to the local authorities, the floods over the previous winter severely damaged numerous villages and districts in the Erbil Governorate, where they resulted in fatalities, injuries, and losses of millions of dollars.
In December of last year, the city of Erbil was subjected to devastating floods that killed 14 people, destroying more than 2,500 homes, and losses estimated at $ 14 million.
Recently, images of cement walls that were equipped on their sides so that occupants of such homes could climb them to access their homes made the media and communication networks in Iraq buzz.
Opinions were divided into this step, between those who considered this exaggeration and a thief, while many expressed their understanding of the motives of those who built these walls at the gates of their homes, as it is an attempt to avoid what might result from the floods and torrents of disasters.
Changing weather
Citizens in the Kurdistan region in particular and Iraq in general complain of bad drainage systems, which causes the risk of torrential rains and floods.
But given that it is one of the effects of the phenomenon of climate change and that Iraq is one of the five most affected nations in the world, climate scientists in Iraq suggest that the lengthy periods of continuous stormy degradation naturally result in the production of damaging torrents.
deteriorated building stock
A number of Iraqi areas experience flood disasters practically every winter, resulting in tragedies, human and material losses that observers and professionals feel should prompt the appropriate authorities to assess the reality of failing drainage systems and deteriorating infrastructure.
According to them, this is essential to avert blood floods, torrential downpours, and other natural calamities, whose toll typically pushes terminal, rural, and slum people who suffer from dated urban and service planning.
Particularly Iraqis make peculiar preparations for the floods.
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