El Niño-linked rains flood South America's tri-border region
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The intense regional rainfall and the opening of floodgates in the Itaipu dam forced the deployment of military and emergency operations.
As precipitation forecast continues in the upper basin, attention should be paid to these events that can generate variations in the Salto Grande dam
Several families had to be evacuated due to the storm.In addition, three people had to be treated in hospitals due to blows caused by the blasting of roofs.
The intense rains recorded in Misiones and the basins of the Paraná and Uruguay rivers caused significant floods, in a scenario marked by the saturation of the soils and the persistence of favorable atmospheric conditions for new precipitation.From the National Water Institute (INA) warned that the situation requires to maintain surveillance, due to [...] El Niño entrance: they warn that saturated soils aggravate the risk of flooding was first p…
The heavy rains in the upper Plata basin led to the two giant reservoirs of the Paraná River being evicting huge flows that will reach downstream in the next few days, putting at risk island and coastal areas.
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