WATER ON THE LAND
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- Created on: 07-04-13 16:31
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- WATER ON THE LAND
- RUTLAND WATER- UK RESEVOIR-PROBELMS
- SOCIAL
- Recreational activities take place there E.G. sailing cycling
- Jobs created
- Two villages were destroyed for it to be built.
- ECONOMICAL
- Brings tourism becuase of the wildlife
- Farmer land destroyed - agriculture.
- ENVIROMENTAL
- Lots of species live around the resevoir
- Habititas were destroyed as a result of the artificall lake.
- SOCIAL
- EFFECTS OF FLOODING IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE WORLD.
- POOR - BANGALADESH
- CAUSES
- 70% of country is 1m above sea level
- More voilent monsoon due to global warming
- Deforestation meant there was lesss interception- more flooding.
- EFFECTS
- 800 dead
- $7 billion in damages
- 5 million people exposed to waterborn disease
- RESPONSES
- CAUSES
- RICH - BOSCASTLE
- CAUSES
- HUMAN
- No flood control
- Drainage systems were old.
- The bridge blocked alot of water causing more damage.
- Unprepared.
- PHYSICAL
- It was a flash flood
- In the Valency valley
- The valley is steep
- River couldnt hold alot of water.
- Heavy rain fall saturated the ground
- The hot weather caused the saturated ground to beome moist
- This coupled with the heavy rain water was to much for the river
- HUMAN
- EFFECTS
- SHORT TERM
- Roads were blocked hindering rescue.
- Property damaged- museum of witchcraft
- Hypothermia from cold water
- Burst sewage main made places not safe.
- LONG TERM
- Lots of repairs
- Rising insurance costs for the villagers.
- Tourism main income and it has been greatly effected-museum of witchcraft
- SHORT TERM
- RESPONSES
- Clean ups
- As it was a freak event flood prevention isnt priority
- CAUSES
- POOR - BANGALADESH
- WAYS OF CONTROLING FLOODING
- HARD
- Channel straighting
- Dis ads
- Exspensive
- Faster flow downstream- more erosion.
- Ads
- Slows down the water
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- Dams and reservoirs
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- Exspensive
- Ads
- Can be uses for HEP
- Store water
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- Channel straighting
- SOFT
- Flood plain zoning
- Dis ads
- No use on exsisting settlements.
- Ads
- No imppermable sufaces no damage
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- Do nothing
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- Floods still happen
- Ads
- Farmland more fertile- due toflooding
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- Preparation- makeing buildings able to wtihstand floods
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- Exspensive
- Might not work.
- Ads
- People less likelt to worry
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- Flood warnings
- Dis ads
- dosent stop floods
- Ads
- Evacuate
- Dis ads
- Flood plain zoning
- HARD
- RUTLAND WATER- UK RESEVOIR-PROBELMS
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