Talk:Floods in Bangladesh

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Just to help

Could probably do with some citations, and some improvement needs to be made on the 'somewhat ammateur' description of the flood defences. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.44.68.212 (talk) 16:36, 18 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Reworded the flood defences section, replacing 'somewhat amateur' — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.43.146.211 (talk) 10:31, 30 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

They destroy paddy fields, fish farms and livestock, rendering the people of bangadesh w/o food supplies, reliant on foot brought in by charity organizations such as UNICEF.

Floods are so serious that people cannot stay in their homes and have to move to shelters. There, they have to live in crowded conditions, making them vulnerable to contagious diseases.

Special measures have to be taken to provide fresh water.

that's all i got, for now. thats all

75% of bangladeshi lands are below 10 metres 80% of banglades is flood plains —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.31.85.205 (talk) 17:33, 25 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

No mention of sea-surge flooding due to combination of cyclonic activity off-shore and monsoonal rainfall and flooding rivers (upstream rainfall from India). Sea surges combined with sea level rise are removing islands and destroying the coastal ecology of the mangroves which protect inland areas from sea flooding and changes in salinity both on land and in the water. Estuarial changes in salinity affect fishing because the fish in estuaries are very sensitive to changes in the salinity levels, which grade from sea water on the coast to fresh water 10s to 100s of kilometers upstream. There is data on this from World Bank (scant) and Germanwatch and other reputable bodies (not that I'd call World Bank reputable in general but YKWIM). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.148.90.238 (talk) 14:08, 21 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Effects

The "Effects" section appears to refer to a particular event or flood, does anybody know what it refers to? 86.143.50.246 13:49, 28 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The article is about floods in bangladesh, look at this title before posting. Fwed66 08:58, 8 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ive got an asessment on bangladesh and its due in in a few days but im realy stuck because there is no indication to why bangladesh is so suscepti

i cant seem to find out where how many people died in 1998 .

The basics

Bangladesh is a country that is located to the east of India. It is also at the base of the Himalayas. There are 2 main rivers flowing into Bangladesh and out the other side to the Bay of Bengal. These two rivers are the River Ganges and the River Brahmaputra. There are many reasons for Bangladesh being flooded. One is there is a lot of flat and dry land which is also easy to flood over. There is also deforestation which is leading to less evaporation which means more water falls down the hills. There are also the rivers where they can overflow and spill on the country. Bangladesh is very near to the sea which may also start to come into the land. Lots more water comes down from the mountains in the summer where the snow has melted to water. Another worrying fact is that if the sea level rises by half a meter then 15% of it will be submerged. As you can see there are lots of ways for this small country to go under water. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.30.142.251 (talk) 15:18, 13 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

thx — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.21.19.177 (talk) 09:36, 2 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Suggested mergers

The articles 1998 Bangladesh floods and 1999 Bangladesh floods are short, consisting largely of general discussion of floods, with little material that is specific to the events in those years. I propose that the two pages should be merge into this page to become sections with redirects to those sections from the original pages. Sminthopsis84 (talk) 21:22, 20 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Support per Sminthopsis84's cogent argument. Worldbruce (talk) 07:52, 26 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for that. Merger done. Sminthopsis84 (talk) 13:15, 27 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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5000 killed each year?

"Each year in Bangladesh about 26,000 km2 (around 18% of the country) is flooded, killing over 5,000 people and destroying more than seven million homes." 7 mill homes every year? Any sources for this?

Jarl Arntzen (talk) 08:42, 1 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The last sentence in the second paragraph under the "Climate variability" subheading is nothing other than opinion without any source or attribution. The sentence referenced here reads as follows: "There needs to be serious considerations to mitigate the effects of climate change and invest in capacity building of each system component to secure the future of this country." The entire sentence should be deleted, or at least attributed to someone remotely qualifying as an expert. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jesbeard (talk • contribs) 21:03, 19 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]