Flooding in Bangladesh Case Study
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- Flooding in Bangladesh Case Study
- Growing popultion so they have to build on floodplains
- Economy was effected 2.5 million farmers effected. 400 clothing factories were closed
- 23.5 million were left homeless
- Low lying land more than half of the country is 5m or less above sea level
- Surface run off because the ground in the Himalayas is frozen
- Disease and health problems mainly because water supplies were damaged
- Roads, Railways and airports were damadged, 6500 bridges damaged and 11000 km of roads
- Deforestation in Nepal
- There are heavy monsoon rains from July onwards
- over 1000 people died
- Thawing snow in the Himalayas
- Lack of flood management because its a LEDC
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