Bangladesh Flooding 2004

Causes:

* Physical features --> delta, distributaries, low-lying and flat drainage basin

* Urbanisation

* Deforestation

* Heaviest rain in 50 years

Effects:

* 30 million homeless

* 750 died

* 100, 000 suffered from a diarrhoea epidemic

* Crops destroyed --> rice and sugar

* Cholera and dysentry outbreak

* Property destroyed

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