Comparing two flood events - Mississippi & Bhramaputra

DHS Case




The causes, timings and locations of each flood event

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Primary Effects
50 people died
62,000 families were evacuated

72,000 homes were flooded

70% of levees were damaged

55 towns were wrecked

6 million acres of farmland was flooded

Secondary Effects
- River traffic halted for several months this cost
businesses lots of money
- Crop losses were put…

emergency
services,
communicatio
n systems and
the army). All
of these help
save lives in
the short term.

Response Nature + Detail
Dams and
LONG TERM: by building a series of Dams with reservoirs behind them engineers had a great ability
reservoirs
to control future flood water. Reservoirs store extra…

Task Instructions
1 Read the sheet carefully. Write a definition in
your own words of each of the key terms shown
as bold italic

2 Describe in detail why each flood occurred. Use
as many key terms in your answer as possible e.g.
such as saturated, runoff, capacity, levees in…

e) Describe the pattern of discharge between
00.00 9th April and 00.00 12th April. You should
use figures in your answer.