Though Bangladesh is a darling child of Nature, she falls a victim to floods every year. The fact is that she is a riverine country and is situated in the monsoon area. Moreover, she has lower land. That’s why flood visits here now and then and increases our sufferings terribly. But it does a little good to us.
We know the causes of floods. Heavy rainfall is the main cause of flood in our country. There is much rain in Bangladesh in the rainy season. This rain water fills the rivers and canals of our country. So the rivers and canals cannot hold much water. It causes flood. Not only that, catastrophic flood may be caused by cyclones and tidal bores in the seas. Sometimes heavy down fall of water due to the melting of snow on mountains is also responsible for floods.
Many dangerous diseases such as cholera, typhoid, dysentery, skin diseases etc. break out. As a result, many people die unnaturally.
Everything has both good and bad sides. Similarly, flood has some good effects on us. During floods rivers carry a lot of silts that make our land fertile. As a result, we find good crops after floods. Moreover, it also wash away garbage, dust and make our environment clean.
There are severe bad effects of floods. Floods wash away our crops (km¨), cattle etc. People become homeless. Many cattle die, communication system is destroyed. People use boat to go here and there.
The effects of floods beggar description. People cannot feed their animals. Sometimes epidemic and famine break out. People suffer for the want of pure drinking water. The price of necessary goods increases.
Flood is a threat to us. We should take proper steps to stop this. We need to build dams (Rjvavi) and barrages to prevent flood.
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