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Low lying areas in watersheds are at increasing risk of flash flooding. Explain why this is happening.

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Answer:

The runoff threshold is the amount of effective precipitation of a certain duration that falls on the basin and is sufficient to cause shallow conditions at the outlet of the basin.

Step-by-step explanation:

Flooding is a temporary water cover

land that is not usually covered by water.

* This includes floods that cause:

◦ Rivers

◦ Mountain streams

◦ Torrential watercourses

◦ As well as floods caused by the sea on the coast

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