RIVERS bangladesh - impacts of river flooding

Question 1

what happened to the economy?

Answer 1

declined

- businesses effected

Question 2

what happened to buildings?

Answer 2

water damaged, some had no power

Question 3

what happened to people?

Answer 3

killed more than a thousand people
loss of livelihood -crops farm animals
infrastructure
increase of diseases - cholera etc

Question 4

how many people are under the poverty line in Bangladesh?

Answer 4

50 million people are under the poverty line

Current population is 167 million

Question 5

what are the positives of river flooding?

Answer 5

Silt and rock is deposited because the load is too heavy

- This is normally very fertile

Question 6

how many people live in slums?

Answer 6

slum is a temporary dwelling with basic sanitation or power.
huts are made from whatever materials they can find
10 million because they are forced to move (houses getting flooded)

Question 7

how many hectares of crop were destroyed?

Answer 7

670,000 hectares of crop were destroyed

Question 8

how many were forced to move?

Answer 8

30 million

Question 9

why do farmers live on floodplains?

Answer 9

because there is fertile soil but this means they are the first to get hurt and they are already poor