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As Europe and the Middle East grapple with extreme heat waves this week, warnings of a new heat wave have been issued worldwide. The severe heat wave has created various climate crises in many countries.
According to the National Meteorological Service, the temperature in Tehran reached 40 degrees Celsius on Sunday, making it the hottest week of the year to exceed 50 degrees Celsius.
Tehran's water authority has urged residents to reduce consumption by at least 20 percent, warning that dam reservoirs supplying the capital have reached their "lowest level in a century" as the hot heat wave continues.
Athens, the capital of Greece, about three thousand five hundred kilometers west of Tehran, is also enduring the first long heat wave of this summer.
A mass of warm air from North Africa has arrived earlier this summer and has formed a heat dome over Greece and the Balkans. The National Observatory has said that it has pushed the temperature 10 degrees Celsius above the seasonal norm.
With average high temperatures this week expected to approach 38C and reach 44C in some areas, Greek daily The National Herald described conditions as 'hotter than hell'.
Such dryness, combined with storms, has caused serious fires in Greece.
Firefighters faced a fire on the island of Crete on Thursday. The fire burned forests and olive groves, forcing more than a thousand people to relocate.
Meanwhile, a new fire near Athens is spreading dangerously close to residential areas.
Elsewhere, Turkey has recorded 761 fires in the 10 days since June 26. An elderly man and a forest worker were killed in a fire in and around the western province of Izmir.
Across Europe, at least eight heat-related deaths have been reported in countries including Spain and Italy. The continent of Europe is also immersed in a heat wave.
'We are currently under the influence of a strong high-pressure system, it has trapped warm air from North Africa over the region and as we can see, it is having a very big impact on the way we feel', World Meteorological Organization spokeswoman Claire Nullis said earlier.
He said people will have to learn to live with more frequent and intense heat waves as a result of climate change.
The Copernicus Climate Change Service, funded by the European Union (EU), said in a recent article, 'Damage to the built environment from extreme weather events is expected to increase tenfold by the end of the century due to climate change alone.'
Saying that such widespread climate impacts highlight the importance of building greater resilience, the service calls for physical and technological measures such as water recycling, separation of rainwater and wastewater, climate-resilient building design, risk mapping and early warning systems.
'Adaptation is needed across all sectors and governance levels and actions must address both current climate impacts and protection against future risks', says the Copernicus Climate Change Service.
