Due to climate change and the strongest showers recorded over the past five years, one of the largest US cities in Chicago may threaten disappearance, reports CNBC.
It is noted that frequent precipitation and drought provoke sharp fluctuations in the water level of the local Sicago River, as well as in Lake Michigan, thereby informing serious damage to the city.
Earlier in Chicago, a storm system was created, which allows you to control the water level in both the river and in the lake. However, the last sediments were so abundant that the system did not work.
last year the water level in Lake Michigan became a record due to intense rains. The waves flooded the local motorway and subdued the buildings to the third floor.
The Chicago River at that time left the shores and provoked an emergency disconnection of electricity.
Experts believe that the greatest risk is that climate change will affect the water level with which the city’s infrastructure will no longer cope.