How much of the country was inundated by floodwater?
60%
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How many people were displaced?
9 million
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What is the flooding due to?
The annual monsoon rains and the melting of the Himalayan glaciers, causing recurrent flooding of the Ganges, Brahmaptna and Meghan rivers
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What do areas of flooding positively correlate to?
poverty - causes poor, dirty conditions, leading to disease spreading
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What % of all deaths in Bangladesh are caused by water-borne diseases?
25%
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Examples of these diseases?
Diarrhoea, Typhoid and Hepatitis
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What is the climate like in Bangladesh?
High humidity, high temperature and high precipitation
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How many were displaced by flooding, poverty and government schemes?
14 million
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What were social effects of the 2007 floods?
1/8 wells were contaminated, 800 drowned as a direct result and there were 100,000 admissions to hospitals.
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How many known cases of diarrhoea?
700,000
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Short-term relief effort
Both government and international agencies provided emergency relief to victims, government gave food aid to the poorest, UNICEF provided drugs and saline solutions to help with dehydration, hundreds of mobile health centres
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Long-term relief effort
Restoring access to clean drinking water, building and drilling hundreds of new wells, 93,000 damaged wells replaced, millions of water purification tablets were attributed
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How much of the country was inundated by floodwater?
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60%
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