Flood in Bangladesh

Location: Bangladesh and India Border

Bangladesh is a country that located in South Asia, a neighbor of India and facing the Bay of Bengal in the south.

causes

human causes:

natural causes:

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Why is it hard for Bangladesh to cope with floods?

Bangladesh is a very poor country so it has less money to spend on flood defenses than richer countries. Most people in Bangladesh can't earn enough money to pay for the insurance against flooding, so when there are floods they risk losing everything.

Solutions that Bangladesh took to tackle with frequent floods

Soft strategy

Food aids from government and other countries

Water purification tablets

People repaired embankments and help to rescue people

Free seeds given to farmers

Hard strategy

Building embankments

Building raised food shelter

Introducing flood warning system

the early arrival of monsoon, the cumulative amount of rain exceeded 122 years of record in the surrounding area

Lots of low-lying land.

Melt water from the Himalayas.

Emergency planning

Heavy deforestation.

Dams planned

Reducing deforestation

effects

environmental

economical

political

democratic

social

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Bangladesh is considered one of the world's most climate-vulnerable countries, and the poor are disproportionately impacted by the effects of such disasters.

The current crisis has been worsened by rainwater flowing down from the surrounding hills of India's Meghalaya state

The erratic rainfall in India's Cherapunji and other areas is the main reason for this flood. Because of global warming, the climate has changed and so has the pattern of rainfall. Now we are observing more and more heavy rainfall

Impacts on rural area

G M Tarekul Islam, a professor at the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology's Institute of Water and Flood Management, said climate change is a factor behind the erratic and early rains that triggered the floods.

Rice crops Important cash crops such as jute and sugar all got devastated.

Impacts on urban area

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100,000 people suffered diarrhea from flood water

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Bridges are destroyed

Airports and roads are flooded and that hampered relief efforts

Drainage basin: This year, the excess rainwater from India’s Assam and Meghalaya states that flow into Bangladesh’s Meghna and Jamuna Rivers could not drain because the wetlands were already saturated by an earlier pre-monsoon flood last month. And the rivers are rising above dangerous levels more frequently than before.

Damages to schools and hospitals are estimated at 7 billion dollars

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