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Climate Change Impact On Stormwater Systems in The Coastal City of Casablanca, Morocco
Climate Change Impact On Stormwater Systems in The Coastal City of Casablanca, Morocco
Climate Change Impact On Stormwater Systems in The Coastal City of Casablanca, Morocco
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Climate change is nowadays a major challenge facing mankind. Yet Received in revised form
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difficult to assess, the consequences of this phenomenon are
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multiple, irreversible and exceed the response capacity of
ecosystems that may be damaged or permanently destroyed. Keywords:
Morocco has experienced a significant change in precipitation with Climate change
increasing frequency and intensity of extreme events of drought and Extreme events
flooding type. In this article, the impact of rainfall variability on the Flood risk
Casablanca city sewage network is studied. The city is ranked as one
of the most vulnerable coastal areas to floods risks due to rapid
changes in urbanization, demography and also the change in the
rainfall regime induced by climate change. The combination of these
factors has increased the occurrence of floods, causing damage to
urban infrastructure and significant economic losses.
Journal of Water Sciences & Environment Technologies ISSN: 2508-9250
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2a: Projected changes, according to the different scenarios
models, for seasonal and annual average temperatures (° C).
Precipitation: Winter: Blue bars, spring: red bars, summer: oranges bars,
autumn: Brown bars, the year: purple bars
Journal of Water Sciences & Environment Technologies ISSN: 2508-9250
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of the stream, when crossing the agglomeration, has been greatly external runoff coming from the extension zones of Sidi
reduced. Moumen (Mohamed Zefzaf, Ahl Loughlam). For the years 2014
and 2015, the situation of the low point of the AutoRoute A3
was aggravated by the clogging of downstream networks.
Fig. 10: Th
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