Nagpur: India is one of five countries in the world that shows a steep increase in populations exposed to severe floods.
More than 5,000 people have been killed and around 7 crivers flee between 2003-2018 in the country because of extreme weather events.
It appears in front of the ‘global flood database’, which has been released by Cloud To Street – global flood tracking platform and risk analytic, with authors from NASA, Google Earth Outreach, and famous international universities.
When the country was hit by severe flooding, the data was worrying and the problem of worries.
According to the database, India appeared quite high, both in the population observed and predicted exposed to floods.
The researchers stated that most of the flood events were caused by heavy rainfall, followed by tropical storms or surges, snow or ice, and dam.
Data analysis revealed that out of ten large floods in the country had almost two decades, nine had been caused by heavy and one rainfall due to tropical storms.
“Guwahati, an urbanization city on the Brahmaputra River, has repeatedly exposed to floods over the past two decades,” said the report.
Based on satellite observations from the actual flood over the past two decades, the basis of the data further highlights that the proportion of the population exposed to floods has grown by 24% globally since the turn of the century.
“This increase is ten times higher than the expected scientists – because both of them increase flooding and population migration.
This marks a population increase in flood-prone areas of up to 86 million people,” added analysis.
The database also made it proved that almost 90% of flood events occurred in South and Southeast Asia, with a large basin including Indus, Gangga-Brahmaputra, and Mekong.
“The growth of the population in the flood area is driven by people who move to flood-prone areas – and economic development in these areas.
The vulnerable population often has no choice but to settle in the flood zone,” the researchers said.
In accordance with estimates, climate change and demographic they will add 25 new countries to 32 which have experienced flooding in 2030.
“More people and assets are influenced by floods than other climate-fueled disasters, which in turn makes poor countries remain poor And drive food and housing prices everywhere, “said Bessie Schwarz, CEO and Co-Founder Cloud onto the road.
Given the past crisis, the researchers showed how the collapse of Koshi’s series left more than 3 million people who lost their homes in Bihar in August 2008.
“This incident illustrates the increasingly deadly infrastructure costs,” he added.
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