Bangkok Floods(2011)

Question 0

What are the causes of the floods?

Answer 0

• 30% nature

- 70% mismanagement by authorities

Question 1

A case study of:

Answer 1

• mismanagement by authorities

Question 2

What are the reasons of the flood?

Answer 2

• upstream river dams did not release water enough - overflowed
• one of the 3 main flood channels was shut off
• hundreds of canals had become blocked over years of mismanagement
• flood walls did not work
• 1822mm of rainfall in first 9 months

Question 3

What were the solutions to the floods?

Answer 3

• Proposed investment in prevention eg. Embankments, levees etc.
• more retention ponds, drainage tunnels+ pumping stations
• government offices moved to higher grounds.

Question 4

What were the effects of the floods?

Answer 4

• factories,homes,shops and offices underwater
• estimated £29 BILLION damage- most expensive disaster ever
• over 500 killed, 12 million affected
• damaged economy