BA English Essay: Floods in Pakistan

Floods in Pakistan

Intriguing the monster of Global warming through the ruthless degradation of nature resulted in many repercussions. Pakistan faced her more than due share of these implications in the shape of floods for consecutive three years. Country was hit by the worst flood of the history in 2010 and the pattern spread over to next two years as well.

Pakistan is an agricultural economy and the major part of revenue is generated through cash and food crops. Moreover the country’s cultivatable hub is along the Indus River and Punjab. The extreme amounts of downpours in late monsoon season in the last three years have caused havoc across this region. The overflowing of rivers, canals and drainage channels inflicted almost 20 million people in 2010 and another 9 million people in 2011. Along with this, the human death toll rose to 520 people. The threatening level of water currents in rivers also caused damaged to soil’s fertility.

The total estimated cost of reconstruction is 239 billion rupees whereas the damages were assessed to be of 324 billion rupees. Lack of preemptive measures and weakened disaster management infrastructure in Pakistan annexed to catastrophe. Epidemics erupted in the flood stricken area as the aftershock and many were fallen prey to diseases.

To wrap it up, Floods were driven by high intensity unprecedented rainfall along the Indus River. They demonstrate changing climate and weather pattern in the region and their intensity of recurrence. The need of the hour is to develop infrastructure of expanded water storage capacity and to establish a quick response system to such natural disasters.