South Asia’s Worst Monsoon Flooding In Years — 1,200 Dead Across India, Bangladesh, & Nepal
More than 1,200 people have died across India, Bangladesh, and Nepal in latest days as a result of the flooding accompanying the worst monsoon season in years, according to latest reports.
So, while the disaster unfolding in Texas and Louisiana is of course worth keeping an eye on, it should be realized that there are disasters occurring elsewhere as well.
One thing that both the flooding in the US and in South Asia have in common, of course, is that they are harbingers of things to come. As temperatures continuing rising around the world, and thus evaporation rates as well, extreme flooding events will become more and more common.
With regard to the monsoon flooding in South Asia, there are now many millions of people in the region that are homeless. Mass harm to agricultural fields has also been reported in various regions.
“This year farming has collapsed due to floods and we will witness a acute rise in unemployment,” explained Anirudh Kumar, a disaster management official in Patna, the capital of the state of Bihar.
Aljazeera provides more: “Government officials in India’s eastern state of Bihar told Reuters news agency on Friday that at least three hundred seventy nine people had been killed over the past few days, with thousands sheltered in ease camps away from their inundated homes.
“In neighbouring Uttar Pradesh, at least eighty eight people were killed when floods swamped almost half of the vast state of two hundred twenty million people. Rajan Kumar, a federal interior ministry official in Fresh Delhi overseeing the rescue and ease operations, told Reuters news agency that at least eight hundred fifty people had been killed in six flood-affected states in the past month.”
“‘A 2nd wave of floods led to widespread destruction,’ he explained. ‘We will have to provide instant rehabilitation aid to help millions affected directly.’”
As far as the situation outside of India, at least one hundred fifty people have been killed as a result of the flooding in Nepal, and 90,000 homes have been demolished; and one hundred thirty four people have died in Bangladesh.
Altogether, the flooding actually submerged more than one-third of Bangladesh. As in, a third of the entire country was submerged under water by the floods. Unnecessary to say, there has been extensive harm to the agriculture there — with crops on Ten,583 hectares of land having been downright washed away, and a further 600,587 hectares of farmland also being bruised.
Things are only going to get worse from here on out in the region. Mass migrations out of the region will begin intensifying over the coming decades.
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