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Effects of coastal flooding reduced

House design Bangladesh

A

List houses move up and down on stilts so rise when flooding occurs.
Stilts made out of recycled plastic water bottles

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Effects of coastal flooding reduced

Prediction and planning

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Environment agency and MET odd ice provide forecasting to show when floods will occur

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Effects of flooding

River Greta

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7 schools closed
People need temporary shelter
Residents of ravens field residential home evacuated

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Effects of flooding

Sudan

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36 people died
90 injured
80000 people were made homeless
Outbreak of malaria and diarrhoea

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Why people live in area effects by volcanos

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Fertile soils - Naples mount Vesuvius
Tourist attraction
Perception of risk mount Vesuvius

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Why people live I’m areas effected by earthquakes

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Perception of risk- Can be safe cos of buildings - San Francisco
Raw materials

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Haiti earthquake

13th january 2010

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Conservative boundary between North American plate and Caribbean plate for 250 years
Moved 1.8 metres
7 on Richter scale
25km west of capital legolane

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Effects of Haiti earthquake

People

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230,000 died
6,900 dies from cholera
1.5 million made homeless
4,000 people had limbs amputated

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Effects of Haiti earthquake

Environment

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70% of buildings collapsed
60% of infrastructure destroyed
Including port

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Water availability on local scale

Reservoir

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Kielder reservoir
Holds 200 billion litres of ester
Water goes directly into river Tyne
Used in Sunderland Durham and Newcastle

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Water availability in local scale

River

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River. Tyne
Water is taken from Tyne to irrigate farmland and provides drinking water for population for Sunderland and surrounding areas

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Water availability on local scale

Groundwater/ aquifer

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London sits on chalk which I’d porous and holds large among of water
Water is pumped by boreholes and I used as drinking water for population of London

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Water supply problems

Quality

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Italy
High calcium leads to kidney stones
Fertilisers run into rivers

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Water supply problems in HICs

Leakage

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London
More than half of pipes are over 100 years old
30% of water is lost through cracks

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Water supply’s in HICs

Spatial variation

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Barcelona
Aragon is surplus
Barcelona deficit

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Water supply in HICs

Seasonal variation

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Malaga
They recieve only 70mm rain from May to October
Compared to 385mm the rest of year

17
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Effects of coastal flooding reduced

Thames barrier in London

A

Made out of 10 steel gates which are opened to let bad through
Protects parliament and 250 billion pound of damage

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