Case Study - Bangladesh

Bangladesh flooding - 2004 

Location  

• Bangladesh 
• 70% of country is less than 1m above sea level
• most densely populated country with 180 million people 
• Mega Delta - 53 rivers emptying into Bay of Bengal 
• Annual monsoon - snow melts

Causes

• More violent monsoon due to global warming caused more snow to melt and ground to become saturated. 
• Urbanisation caused surface run off.
• Deforestation stopped interception allowing water to make it to river…