bangladesh

• Flooding in Bangladesh from heavy monsoon rain.

  60% of the country was inundated and 10 million were displaced.

  3 rivers were overfilled and there was melting of glaciers that increased rain water.
• Environmental factors

  Climate change=melting of ice and more extreme weather.

  flooding led to the water supply being mixed with sewage (cholera)

  drinking water contaminated

  high humidity and temperature led to the disease spreading more
• Human factors

  large groups of people in close proximity

  High poverty so more susceptible to disease

  1/8 wells were contaminated
• Impacts

  800 drowned and died from the disease

  70,000 had diarrhoea and suffered from acute dehydration
• Strategies to minimise the disease

  Government provided aid

  aid from red cross

  UNICEF gave essential saline solution to combat the dehydration

  Long term= restoring safe drinking water and repairing damaged wells