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Bangladesh floods 2004
- Causes
- Human
- Trees have been
cleared for farmland
- Building of new towns in
China has destroyed lots of
forest
- Many of the existing flood
defences don't work
- Trees have been
cleared for farmland
- Physical
- 70% of
Bangladesh is
less than 1m
below sea level
- There were heavy
monsoon rains
- The amount of
monsoon rain
increases each year
- There was lots of
melting snow from
the Himalayas
added to rivers
- 70% of
Bangladesh is
less than 1m
below sea level
- Human
- Short term response
- Airport flooded- foreign aid
couldn't get in
- UN appeal reached $74 million
- Wateraid posters showed
danger of drinking dirty water
- Food, medicines and blankets
were given to survivors
- Relief and aid couldn't be
distributed, rail and roads
damaged
- Airport flooded- foreign aid
couldn't get in
- Long term response
- Economic cost was $2.2bn
- The world bank gave a 5yr loan to help with repairs
- Locals rebuilt houses on 2m stilts
- 70,000 children were helped
by school boats
- Bangladeshi villagers could receive texts
about severe weather warnings in 2009
- Economic cost was $2.2bn
- Primary effects
- 6,500 bridges destroyed
- 800 people killed
- 80% of country was under 1m of water
- Some areas underwater for 2 months
- 500,000 cattle killed
- 11,000km of roads were damaged
- 6,500 bridges destroyed
- Secondary effects
- Shipping from main
port was disrupted
- 36 million made homeless
- 1/4 million
people had
dirty water
- 1/4 million
had
diarrhoea
- Rice growing
and fish farming
disrupted
- Over 400 factories closed
- Shipping from main
port was disrupted
- Case study detail
- They were the worst floods this century
- They were the worst floods this century
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