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Environmental Impacts of Flooding - Coggle Diagram
Environmental Impacts of Flooding
NEGATIVE
Soil & bank erosion
Sediments that are trapped in water can degrade water quality
leads to harmful bloom of algae
Land slides
destruction of natural habitat
Nest are destroyed
Fish are being displaced
death and injury
Water polluted by the sewage debris
Increases the spreading of waterborne diseases
Lack of clean water and sanitation
The death of species due the dirty water
Silt and sediments can destroy crops
Wildlife are killed
drowning, disease proliferation, and habitat destruction.
Hundreds of animals including the endangered one-horned rhinoceros were killed in floods that swamped Kaziranga National Park in the Indian state of Assam.
POSITIVE
Bring nutrients essential for life
Floods transfer nutrients such as nitrogen, phosphorous, and organic material to the surrounding land
Floods recharge groundwater
Floodwater gets absorbed by the soil
percolates through layers of soil and rocks
reach the aquifers
aquifers provide freshwater to springs, wells, lakes and rivers
Boosts fish stock
Floods may help fish to outcompete invasive species that are not adapted to the river's flood cycle