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What damage can floods cause?
Damage caused by floods Damages caused by flood are immediate. Lives are lost, properties are destroyed and if rural areas are hit crops are destroyed. Flooding causes severe damage, disrupts economic processes and causes a food shortage.
Why are floods helpful?
Flooding occurs naturally along every river and coastal areas. Flood waters can carry nutrient-rich sediments which contribute to a fertile environment for vegetation. In addition, floodplains are important because of storage and conveyance, protection of water quality, and recharge of groundwater.
What are the typical effects of flood?
Floods have huge social consequences for individuals and communities. As most people are well aware, the immediate effects of flooding include loss of human life, property damage, crop destruction, livestock loss and deterioration of health conditions due to waterborne diseases.
What impact do floods have to our environment?
Floods impact both individuals and communities, and have social, economic, and environmental consequences (Table 1). As most people are well aware, the immediate impacts of flooding include loss of human life, damage to property, destruction of crops, loss of livestock, and deterioration of health conditions owing to waterborne diseases .
What effects do floods have on the ecosystem?
Floods effect the ecosystem as they wipe out an amount of area. This could be large or small. The larger it is, the more of the ecosystem it wipes out. It wipes it out as it could simply wipe out the producer in the food chain (plant) which would mean the rest of the food chain would collapse which would kill other food chains.
What are the beneficial impacts of floods?
Positive Effects of Floods Renewal of Wetlands. Floods contribute to the health of ecologically important wetland areas. Returning Nutrients to Soil. Floods distribute and deposit river sediments over large areas of land. Preventing Erosion and Maintaining Land Mass Elevation. Recharge and Replenish Ground Water.
How can flooding help the ecosystem?
Floods as destroyers. Rivers have played pivotal roles in most civilisations throughout human history due to the universal need for drinking water and other resources like food.