The canton of Bern is at risk from devastating floods because its lakes, which take melt water from the mountains, are sometimes too small to contain all the water that comes their way.
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Catastrophic flooding in 1999, 2005 and 2007 led to reforms in water management in Bern. Bernard Wehren, the hydrologist in charge of regulating lake levels, told swissinfo what changes were made and what effect they have had. (SRF/swissinfo.ch)
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Snow monitoring methods reduce flood risk
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“We can now compare the current situation with other situations in previous years, and tell the flood forecasters if there is significantly more snow than average in the mountains that is due to melt over the next couple of days,” says researcher Tobias Jonas. Jonas is a hydrologist at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest,…
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