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By 10 August, aid workers in Bihar reported a dramatic increase in people with diarrhea [5] and by 11 August, flood-related deaths were still occurring. [6] The total number of deaths recorded in the 2007 Bihar floods was more than 1,3050, the highest death toll in the state since the 1987 Bihar floods, in which more than 2,500 deaths were ...
[7] [18] By 8 August, an estimated 10 million people in Bihar had been affected by flooding. [10] Army helicopters delivered food packets to Bihar residents and 180 relief camps were set up. By 10 August, aid workers in Bihar said the number of people with diarrhoea had jumped dramatically [20] and by 11 August, flood deaths were still ...
A recent fact-finding report on the Kosi floods of 2008 – prepared by a civilian organization, the Fact Finding Mission on the Kosi, composed of various experts such as Sudhirendar Sharma, Dinesh Kumar Mishra, and Gopal Krishna – highlighted the fact that although India has built over 3000 km of embankments in Bihar over the last few decades, the propensity for flooding has increased by 2. ...
An aerial view of the flood affected villages where the relief material being dropped by the IAF helicopter in Bihar An aerial view of the flood affected village with people sitting on the roofs of houses Bihar 2008 Bihar floods. In response to the disaster, widely reported as the region's worst flood in 50 years, Nitish Kumar, Chief Minister ...
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Derna is prone to flooding, and its dam reservoirs have caused at least five deadly floods since 1942, the latest of which was in 2011, according to a research paper published by Libya’s Sebha ...
Flooded north Bihar, India. The Kosi River is known as the "Sorrow of Bihar" as the annual floods affect about 21,000 km 2 (8,100 sq mi) of fertile agricultural lands thereby disturbing the rural economy. [1] It has an average water flow of 2,166 cubic metres per second (76,500 cu ft/s). [18]