bangladesh flooding
- Created by: rosie
- Created on: 11-12-12 19:21
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- Bangladesh
- Bangladesh is an LEDC - it therefore does not have money to implement large schemes
- advantages of living here
- The flat floodplains of the delta are very fertile
- disadvantages of living here
- the low lying islands are very vunerable to floods
- difficult to get flood warnings out
- poor comunications- many locals dont own their own television or phone.
- sustainable ways of reducing floods
- building coastal flood shelters on stilts
- early warning system
- The Flood Action Plan is funded by the world bank. It funds projects to monitor flood levels and construct flood banks/artificial levees
- 80% of Bangladesh is on a floodplain and most of which is only 1 m etre above sea level
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