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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INTRODUCTION In hydroelectric power plant‚ turbine been used to generate power from reservoir of water. Turbine been selected by their characteristic curves based on the potential energy available in the water and the amount of power to be generated. Turbine is a type that develops torque by reacting to the pressure or weight of a fluid. The operation of reaction turbine can be describes by the Newton’s third law of motion that is for every action‚ there is an equal and opposite reaction. In this
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A grand scheme that the Brazilian Government used was to build a dam in 1984. It was the fourth largest dam in the world and it cost 5 billion dollars. The Brazilian government plans to build more dams in the amazon to harness the power of various rivers with money borrowed from other countries. The idea of dams such as these is to generate cheap electricity for Brazilian industrustys. The water held back by the dams has flooded a huge area of forest. The forest wasn’t cleared‚ (though it should
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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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existing water shortages during early Kharif sowing period of April-June Regulation and control of high flood peaks in the Indus to enable provision of perennial tubewell irrigation to the riverain area in Sindh. As part of controversy on Kalabagh Dam‚ a number of apprehensions/doubts have been expressed both by upper (NWFP) and lower (Sindh) riparian provinces. Most of these are based either on lack of information or hear say. In addition‚ there have been reservations in the mind of some quarters
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Flood case study Bangladesh Causes The main cause of the floods was unusually severe monsoon rains and an unusually high volume of runoff from melting snow from the snow caps of the Himalayas. These all increased the amount of surface water and the volume of water in Bangladesh’s two main rivers‚ which are very large and connect. The Ganges and the Brahmaputra both had more than the normal amount of water that they could carry and so were overflowing and flooding. A number of human factors
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hydroelectricity. Hydroelectric power plants were built near large cities to supplement power production. Hydropower had some help from the federal government in being established in America. The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) was implemented during the Great Depression of the 1930s. The program was designed to correct several problems in the Tennessee River Basin. These problems included frequent floods‚ erosion‚ and deforestation. The TVA provided for the building of several hydroelectric dams. Not only
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For years now the discussions have arose about the levee systems in America and how some are not safe and need to be replaced. This problem has been focused on the levee system in New Orleans. Many engineers and other people have asked the question whether or not the present levee system in New Orleans could withstand a huge wave or a direct hit from a powerful hurricane. These questions were answered when Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans as a Category 3 hurricane which isn’t even the most powerful
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