Bangladesh

Bangladesh

1. Flooding in an LEDC

   • Effects
     • 36 million affected
     • £2.2 billion
     • 60% flooded
     • 15000km road destroyed
     • 30 million homeless
     • 100,000+ with waterborne diseases
     • Crops lost
     • Contaminated water
     • 900 bridges destroyed
     • 1.5 million in danger of malnutrition
     • Food shortage

2. General information

   • Population: 156.6 million
   • Confluence Brahmaputra, Meghna and Ganges
   • East of India on the Bay of Bengal

3. Causes

   • Snowmelt from Himalayas
   • Averaging 300mm of rain per day
   • 90% less than 10m above sea level
   • Early Monsoon
   • Deforestation
   • Urbanisation
   • Low pressure

4. Responses

   • UN team dispatched
   • £21 million aid from UK
   • Rice & blankets
   • NGO's dispatched aid workers
   • Free seed to farmer
   • Temporary shelters
   • Food & water aid
   • Embankments created
   • £100 million on preparedness program
     • Radios - warnings
     • Sluice gates
     • Slope protection
     • Rescue boat procedure
     • Villages raised by 2m