When
June 2013
Died
200
Stranded
500,000
Imagery system
Sparso monitor cloud cover rainfall patterns
Solutions
Multi-national aid, emergency shelter, improved forecast, feeding programmes
Deforestation
Less interception. More soil erosion. Pop increase, greater demand for food fuel materials
Ganges river pop
400 mil
Length
1560 miles
…. Types of fish…. Of amphibian
100.50
Of rain
500 mm a day
Causes
3 huge rivers converge, meghna Brahmaputra Ganges, cyclones Bay of Bengal. Monsoon rain, snowmelt, wind brings storm surges, tectonic uplift soil erosion
… Sea rise
1.5m affecting 17 million people and 22000km of land