Bangladesh Flood Flashcards
How much of the land is below 6m?
60%
Over 1/3 of land is…
tidal influenced.
Delta drains…
12x the size of Bagladesh-very large floodplain
Confluence of…
3 large rivers.
Cyclons brings…
storm surges.
The country itself is…
floodplain.
There are high inputs of water from…
melted snow in the Himalayas.
Stream density in Bangladesh is larger than…
Amazon’s.
There are high rates of lateral…
shifting.
Area of Monsoon…
rains.
How many people work in the primary industry?
47% especially farming
It is the most densely…
populated country in the world.
High rates of deforestation for…
building houses and clearing land for farming.
Aggregation is very…
common. Eroded material “blocks” river channels and drops the channel capacity and HR decreases.
Unregulated…
urbanisation=poor drainage system
Due to global warming…
sea levels rise and more glacial in mountains melts.
Over 10million people live in…
slump housing on chars created by deposition of alluvium. It is only temporary land.
Over 50 million people live in…
poverty.
Due to lack of education, many people choose to live on…
on fertile land closer to the river.
Due to largest floods in…
1998, 20 million people faced malonutrition.
(1998) The number of deaths was…
around 1500 and almost 1000 000 houses damaged.
To reduce the impacts of floods, many roads and houses were built…
on raised platforms.
Rural people cultivated different…
varieties of rice, some of which can grow in floodwaters.
Leeves were built on the banks…
increasing channel capacity. Around 10 000 kilometres.
The Flood Forecasting Warning Centre issues…
five-day forecasts during the monsoon season.
