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Bangladesh Floods
- CAUSES
- PHYSICAL
- most of the country is the
huge flood plain & delta of
the river Ganges &
Brahmaputra
- 70 per cent of the
total area is less
than 1 metre above
sea level
- rivers, lakes and
swamps are over 10
per cent of land area.
- Heavy monsoon rain falls
in summer annual total in
Dhaka is high (almost
2000)
- Tropical cyclones
from the Bay of
Bengal bring
heavy rain &
storm waves in
late summer.
- snow melts in the
Himalayas in
summer and the
river Ganges
floods
- HUMAN
- Removal of vast areas
of forest to provide
fuel
- increased soil
erosion
- soil deposited in th river,
reducing the capacity of th
river rising by 5cm a year.
- EFFECTS
- IMMEDIATE
- social
- 760 people killed
- 3o million homeless
- 35 million effected
- Economic
- Roads & bridges
destroyed
- Rice growing & fish
farming disrupted
- Enviromental
- covered half of
Bangladesh
- LONG TERM
- social
- more than 1 million
children suffered from
maintuition & disease in
the following months
- Economic
- re-buliding of roads
industry cost $2-3
billion
- Emergency flood
aid was needed
until the
following years
harvest
- Enviromental
- Bank & soil
erosion water
contamination
- FLOOD MANAGEMENT
- Prime concern is
the health, survival
& suffering of the
people
- UN provided food,
drinking water,
medicines, plastic
sheets, boats
&other
international
organisations
- In July
1987
- world bank
prepared an action
plan for flood
control
- 3500 kilometres of
coastal & river
embankments
- 7 large dams
- stop water
reaching the
land & provide
up to 15 flood
water storages
- additional financial
aid was organised
for a period of 5
years
- future, flood resistant
designs should be used
in all social & economic
infrastructure projects