The Minister of the Environment draws “an alarm signal” after the storm of Monday. “Probably the whole Bucharest would have been under the water”

The interim Minister of the Environment, Mircea Fechet, spoke about extreme meteorological phenomena on Tuesday, at Digi 24, and said that “Romania has a whole strategy of adapting to climatic changes, adopted by a government decision.”

“As for what happened yesterday (…), in the situation where such phenomena will be repeated more and more often, no doubt must be rethought the way we manage the rainwater. The sewerage of Bucharest, as it works today, probably not in the future will not be able to deal with such events. If it had been raining for another hour or two hours, because the whole Bucharest would have been under the water (…), exaggerating, of course, “said Mircea Fechet, referring to the storm of Monday in the Capital.

The official explained that he was trying to draw an “alarm sign” on the effects of climate change and the need for investment.

“I only try to sound an alarm signal, because it has been very little talking about these things in recent years. That we refer to climatic changes, that we refer to the need for investments, in the European Union, we pay, or we lose, every day hundreds of millions of euros. There is a statistic, it also gives a figure, 390 million euros per day,” Mircea Fechet.

He argues that “all mathematical calculations say it is cheaper to prevent such situations.”

“For each type of problem, there is a solution, so much to be invented, that in the case of desertification, for example, we have nothing more than to affore and plant forest, especially in” Sahara Oltenia “, as we call the South area, where we lose up to 1,000 hectares every year,” said Mircea.