celsius climate change is also aggravating conditions in the drought plagued arid landscape linear mirah valleys had enough their rising heat and a long period of heatwave creates drought and we have problems because also we do have. a different type of rains these days also due to climate change we have shorter periods of time that we have enormous amount of water coming down in a very short period of time so this creates flooding and flooding creates erosion so we have this double phenomenon of dryness and a lot of water which also depletes the land and creates land there over 3 years ago 40 percent of the area's annual rainfall gushed down here in only 5 hours and washed away most of the topsoil. athens is one of the european cities most at risk from drought and farce fires the deforestation of the slopes of mount like a bit as has disrupted the area's microclimate as well the downpours of recent years turned roads into white water taunts now athens is responding we're replacing all the asphalt of the road that goes up and down the hill which is a proximately 3 kilometers taking it of