Floods in Bangladesh

Dozens of villages were inundated when rain pushed the rivers of northwestern Bangladesh over their banks in early October 2005. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on [Terra satellite captured the top image of the flooded Ghaghat and Atrai Rivers on October 12, 2005. The deep blue of the rivers is spread across the countryside in the flood image.

Flooded streets of Baridhara, Dhaka, during the 2007 floods in Bangladesh

Bangladesh is built over the main land flood plains of four major rivers: the Brahmaputra, Meghna, Ganges and Wang Rivers. The first three out of these four converge into Bangladesh, creating the largest river delta in the world and empty out onto the Bay of Bengal.[http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images_topic.php3?topic=land&img Floods help maintain the fertility of the cultivable land in Bangladesh and this helps the agriculture sector of the country. However, excessive flooding is considered a natural disaster and a calamity. Floods have wreaked havoc in Bangladesh throughout history. Major flooding recorded in recent years occurred in: 1987, 1988, and 1998; the most recent one occurred in 2007. According to government statistics, 298 people died and a total of 10,211,780 people were badly affected by it.56,967 houses were damaged by the floods up to 13 August 2007.Prothom Alo, 14 August 2007 They caused serious winds from the south that caused the water to come down to Bangladesh.

The Ganges Delta was formed by the Ghaghat river. Silt and Sediments are deposited, building up a Delta. not interested....

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