Drowning is the biggest danger in the desert
More people have drowned in the Sahara than died of dehydration.
It hardly ever rains in the desert, but if it does it rains really heavy rains. The water flows then through valleys where no one expects it even to be possible that water is flowing there.
These water flows are very dangerous as they surprise the people who are there at that given moment. There is no time to escape from water flows like this and the people drown.
In 1995 more than 300 people drowned like this in only one weekend in the Sahara.
Source: Krämer & Trenkler, Nieuw lexicon van hardnekkige misverstanden
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Yeah, but is it really the biggest danger? Aren’t dehydration, undernourishment or disease bigger problems? The chance of such heavy rains isn’t that big, the chance of dehydration and/or hyperthermia is waaaaaayyyyy bigger! I don’t understand, please explain