When the environment is treated like a landfill
Flooding becomes the norm.
|03.02.2026
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Uncontrolled urbanization, weak stormwater management systems, the mixing of sewage with rainwater and the issuing of construction permits in vulnerable areas are turning every intense rainfall event into a potential flood crisis.
Funding for environmental protection remains minimal.
Floods can no longer be seen as purely natural disasters, but rather as the direct consequence of a chain of institutional failures.
Agron Demi
Agron Demi is a civil society activist and the founder and executive director of the Atlas Institute.
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This story was originally written in Albanian.