predominantly rural catchment will be discussed even if there are areas of urban land within the catchment. Humans impact on flood risk falls into one of two categories. The first is deliberately and directly‚ through floodplain restoration‚ construction of dams and channel rehabilitation and all of these have fairly obvious positive effects on reducing flood risk. However it is when humans indirectly affect the flood risk‚ through deforestation‚ land use change and climate change (which all have a negative
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Synopsis: One of the most significant mining disaster happened at a little valley that located in Buffalo count‚ West Virginia in February 1972. The disaster cause by a dam corruption which was used to block black water produced in mining procedures. The flood break out from the fallen dam and rush out the 17 mile valley below it‚ killed more than 100 people‚ 1000 people injured and more than 4000 people were homeless. The disaster quickly gain the attention from the author of
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Essay: Kalabagh Dam Kalabagh Dam is a dilemma in Pakistan. Kalabagh Dam has met with extreme opposition from 3 provinces of Pakistan. Many people comment on this issue without any research‚ so they are unable to justify their point but before embarking on any conclusion I would like to discuss both point of views and I would like to give a conclusion in the most lucid manner possible. Kalabagh Dam is a dam which will add more than 3‚500 megawatts to the national grid and it will be able to solve
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The district commissioner (who narrates the radio adaptation in the first person) describes the threat Leiningen faces: "Ten miles long‚ two miles wide—ants‚ nothing but ants!” Additionally‚ each ant is approximately the size of a man’s thumb and wants to consume any form of life that falls in its path. (If this description is accurate‚ it means there are roughly 64 billion ants in the swarm; the entire human population at the time was less than 2 billion.) It is also mentioned that they can completely
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It starts from learning the causes of the disaster and stop or avoid to do those activities. For example use of woods and not replenishing of lost woods. Uprooting of Plants is also linked with mining activities and building of Dams. We know we cannot stop building dams or mining. So what should we do? Organizations which are building such huge projects must select some other locations (if not the same) to compensate devastations done at one location. In this consumerist world we can evaluate
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the costliest natural disaster in US history‚ was also a warning shot. Located in one of the lowest spots in the US‚ the Big Easy is already as much as 17 feet below sea level in places‚ and it continues to sink‚ by up to an inch a year. Upstream dams and levees built to tame Mississippi River floods and ease shipping have starved the delta downstream of sediments and nutrients‚ causing wetlands that once buffered the city against storm-driven seas to sink beneath the waves. Louisiana has lost
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Causes and Impacts of flooding in an LEDC- Bangladesh 2007 Introduction Bangladesh is located in the south of Asia. It is bordered by India to its north‚ west and east and by Burma to its south east. The Bay of Bengal is south of Bangladesh and the country lies on the fertile Bengal Delta. The map below shows the location of Bangladesh and shows the two rivers; the Brahmaputra and the river Ganges running through Bangladesh. In July and august 2007 both Bangladesh and India suffered from severe flooding
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This was my very first high adventure since I joined the boy scouts‚ and we were going on a three day canoe trip in the Ozarks. I was so nervous because the trips I had been taking were only day trips‚ and I ran into a log on one of those trips and almost flipped. We were in deep water too‚ so no one could help us. So I have had a bad experience with rivers ‚but I was determined to conquer the Missouri Current River. I love the outdoors and the creatures that live outside‚ so I was excited to see
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24 October 2011 Dam the Politics... Save the Salmon There are some things in this world that mean more to us than we can explain. We as human beings have an existential connection to all of mother earth’s creatures. We are approaching a dark time in the Klamath River‚ soon there will be no natural born salmon spawning up what was once one of the rivers that spawned the most salmon in the Pacific Northwest. The salmon that at one time flourished in the Klamath‚ are not able to reach their natural
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ABSTRACT 1. INTRODUCTION Historical flooding in Lembah Sungai Rambai and its surrounding in year 1999 to 2009 has been long issue in Seberang Perai Tengah area. Report from the Seberang Perai Municipal Council (MPSP) stated that the flooding caused in this area is the inability of the local internal drains and river system to carry the increased discharge resulting from the rapid development in the area and the non-availability of an integrated drainage plan in the area. There are two
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