Study on flood prevention worked out in Moldova

Chisinau, 19 January /MOLDPRES/- A study on rain floods in the context of human impact on the environment was worked out in Moldova. It is aimed at assessing changes in temporal and spatial characteristics of floods from rivers, caused by human activity.

The scientific work was set up by Ana Jeleapov, PhD in geonomic sciences. According to the author, the monograph is intended for water specialists, hydrologists, hydrological engineers, students of cycles I, II, III, scientific researchers, specialists from institutions dealing with the assessment and management of water resources and flood risk.

"A special detail of the work is the concept of simulating the processes of flood formation, using different hydrological models, which represents a future direction in the process of flood risk assessment," she said.

"The work can be used in the process of developing policies in the field of water resources management, as well as in the process of flood risk assessment. The specialized literature, national and international studies on the flood flow regime show that anthropogenic activity significantly influences the processes of formation and propagation of rain floods. For this reason, the issue of identifying and understanding changes in the characteristics of maximum runoff from the rivers of the Republic of Moldova is fragmentedly researched and reflects the experience of previous decades, but complex studies have not been conducted so far. We believe that this research is necessary and is part of the current global research on storm floods ", Secretary of State of the Ministry of Agriculture, Regional Development and Environment (MADRM) Dorin Andros said.

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