Table of Contents:
- What is a flood?
- Cause of flood in India
- Flood-affected areas
- Impact of Flood
- Way to tackle flood
Flood in urban cities because of poor planning as per a UN report poor planning in Urban areas causes a 3 % GDP loss every year
The following are the reasons for the flood:
Impact of the flood:
Flood is one of the major hazards in India affecting a major part of the population both economically and psychologically.
The impact of the flood is multidimensional:
The following are the reasons for the flood:
- Climate Change:
- Uncertainty in Monsoon:
- Heavy rainfall in a very short duration of time causes floods in low-lying areas.
- Cyclonic rainfall also causes the flood
- Encroachment of flood room areas
- Unplanned and unscientific mining in hilly areas causes the silting of drainage channel bed causing a reduction in the depth of the river bed and as a result overflow of the river cause flood in surrounding areas.
- Unplanned construction in Urban areas such as colonies, transportation infrastructure, concretization utilization of areas, and improper solid waste management in urban areas leads to choking of natural and human-made drainage channels that lead to floods.
- Deforestation leads to soil erosion and a reduction in flood areas causes the flood.
- Mismanagement of Dam water; Dam managers wait to fill the dam then they release water. Heavy rain and dam discharge at the same time cause the flood.
Impact of the flood:
Flood is one of the major hazards in India affecting a major part of the population both economically and psychologically.
The impact of the flood is multidimensional:
- It badly harmed the tourism sector
- Loss of lives and cattle
- Damage of Infrastructure
- Create Psychological stress or trauma among vulnerable groups such as children, Women, etc.
- Waste management and cleanliness challenge
- The outbreak of some communicable diseases such as Dengue, Malaria, Cholera, etc.
- Cascading effects like Infection and absence of care for pregnant women and old people.
Way to flood management
Climate-resilient water management is a good way to manage floods.;
- Need best available information for decision making such as Flood hazard mapping
- Reliable Weather forecasting
- Robust management of catchment water
- Safety dam code
- Buffer areas for rivers
- New intermediary storage
The government of India generally focuses on the compensation part not the prevention of floods.
Try to solve the following questions:
- Account for the growing frequency and intensity of floods in India and suggest short-and long-term remedial measures indicating the chronically flood-prone areas. ( UPSC 2015, 250 words, 20 marks)
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- Mention the preventive and curative measures to contain problems of flood-prone and drought-prone areas of Bihar (( 63rd BPSC, 2019) )
- Write short notes on Drought-prone areas of India.
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