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Why Is Assam Prone To Floods and What's The Solution ?

Assam is prone to floods because the Brahmaputra River brings large amounts of sediment from Tibet which it deposits in Assam, raising river beds and causing erosion and floods. The government has tried to address this by building embankments, but they are often not strong enough to prevent flooding. A long-term solution requires a basin-wide approach that considers the entire river system.

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Why Is Assam Prone To Floods and What's The Solution ?

Assam is prone to floods because the Brahmaputra River brings large amounts of sediment from Tibet which it deposits in Assam, raising river beds and causing erosion and floods. The government has tried to address this by building embankments, but they are often not strong enough to prevent flooding. A long-term solution requires a basin-wide approach that considers the entire river system.

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Why is Assam prone to floods and what's the solution ?

Why are foods so destructive in Assam ?


● nature of the river Brahmaputra dynamic and unstable
● discharge as well as the sediment it brings
● the vast amount of sediments comes from tibet, where river originate, region is
cold, arid, lacks plantation, glacier melt, soil erodes, highly sedimented river
● It deposits a vast amount of this silt, leading to erosion and floods. the rivers
channels prove inadequate amid this situation leading to floods
● because of the earthquake prone nature of the region, level of the Brahmaputra
Rose by 2 metres in Dibrugarh area in eastern Assam
● man made once- habitation deforestation population growth in catchment areas
(including in China)

Has the government tried to address the factors that cause floods ?
● dams and reservoirs be built to mitigate floods
● The government has been using only one approach towards floods: building
embankments on the river only as an interim and ad hoc measure for short term
mitigation. They lack durability. most embankments are not strong enough.
● government also considered dredging

there is along-term solution- need to be a basin wide approach

International charter 'space and major disasters'


India a member of the international charter space and major disasters

about international charter space and major disasters-


● it is a non binding charter
● it provides for charitable and humanitarian related acquisition of and transmission
of space satellites data to relief organisations in the event of major disasters
● initiated by the European space agency and the French space agency (CNES)
● officially came into operation IN 2000
● only agencies that possess and are able to provide satellite based Earth
observation data can be members

How does it work ?


satellite data are made available for the benefit of disaster management by combining
Earth observation assets from different space agencies

Dam safety bill 2019


concerns raised
● the bill is too focus on structural safety and not on operational safety
● there is inadequate compensation to the people affected by dam
● there is need for an independent regulator
● Many states say it encroaches upon the sovereignty of states to manage their
dams

Why is the centre introducing this bill ?


through the subject does not fall under the preview of parliament there are no legal and
institutional safeguards in this regard

highlight of dam safety bill 2019


● the bill provides for proper surveillance inspection operation and maintenance of
the dams
● the bill provides for constitution of a national committee on dam safety which
shall evolve dam safety policy and recommend
● provides for establishment of national dam safety authority as a regulatory body
● the bill provide for a constitution of a State committee on dam safety by State
Government

significance-
● India to adopt uniform dam safety procedures
● it addresses all issues concerning dam safety including regular inspection,
emergency action plan comprehensive dam safety review adequate repair and
maintenance funds for dam safety

need-
● India ranks third after US and China in the number of large dams
● 5254 large dams are in operation 447 are under construction in addition
thousands of medium and small dams about
● 164 dams are more than hundred years old India has had 36 dam failures in the
past

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