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Where is Bangladesh?
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Asia surrounded by India
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Three physical causes of flooding?
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1. Melting of snow
2.heavy monsoon rainfall (900mm) 3.Bangladesh is flat lower than 12m above sea level 4.Confluence of two rivers increases discharge |
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Two human causes of flooding?
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1.Deforestation- less interception and increased run off
2. Urbanisation- impermeable surfaces |
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Primary effects of flooding?
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1. 2000 deaths
2. 25 million homeless 3. 44 schools destroyed 4. 10, 000km of road destroyed 5. Factories closed and livestock killed 6. Rivers polluted with sewage |
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Secondary effects of flooding?
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1.100,000 people people caught water borne diseases, dysentery, diarrhoea
2. Flooding fields reduced rice production and prices rose by 10% 3.Children lost out on education- 4000 schools affected by the flood |
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Immediate response of flooding?
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1.Lack of evacuation
2. Aid- medical food & water supplies from charties |
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Long term response of flooding?
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1. Past earth embankments have been built, but they collapse and prevent water flowing back into the river
2. international charities have paid for villages to be rebuilt 3. Some shelters are now built on stilts 4. Planting vegetation in the mountains 5. Having flood wardens to warn villages |
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Rivers that run through Bangladesh?
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1. Brahmaputra
2. Ganges |
