**5.5 Some ways to reduce the risk of floods**

The valleys have devastating effects on urban facilities:

	- Using flash flood warning systems for sudden flooding by connecting rain and runway monitoring stations with automatic telephones and light signals to warn residents and road users.
	- Employing remote sensing and radar data to monitor the weather situation and identifying hazard areas.
	- Organizing awareness sessions and workshops, using awareness leaflets and warning plates, with guides and maps for road users, and methods to be used to avoid danger.
	- Making use of studies of the expected periods of flow, the expected volume of the flood, thereby informing the inhabitants of these areas in advance, in addition to the precautions to be taken by the citizens and the authorities responsible for them.
