write a report on kerala flood for hs students
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at the flood of Kerala main people of their lives and this was the worst flood in the history of Kerala there was also before in Kerala in Thiruvananthapuram because of a Tsunami at the movement the rescue operation is going under professional Team by helicopter and also by boat some team members save it to death
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Kerala’s once-in-a-lifetime rainfall was 2,378 mm over 88 days, four times more than normal–but 30 percent less and spread over 61 days more than the deluge of 1924, the most intense flood in the state’s recorded history, submerging as it did almost the entire coastline.
So why was the flood of 2018 as devastating as the 3,368 mm rainfall that Kerala received 94 years ago (locally called the “deluge of 99”, since it occurred in the year 1099 of the Malayalam calendar)?
That’s because Kerala has reduced its capacity to deal with such extreme floods by allowing illegal stone quarrying, cutting down forests and grasslands, changing drainage patterns and sand mining on river beds, said experts.
Madhav Gadgil, ecologist and founder of the Centre for Ecological Sciences at the Indian Institute of Science
“These quarries cause deforestation and block the natural streams, which help in reducing the intensity of the floods.”
Most of the 373 casualties in Kerala were caused by landslides in the northern districts of Malappuram and Wayanad, and the central district of Idukki.
Gadgil is the lead author of a 2011 government-commissioned studywritten by the Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel (WGEEP)–commonly called the Gadgil committee report–which he headed. The report recommended that development be restricted in the Western Ghats, which sprawls across six states, including Kerala.
The change in land use came at a time of increasingly uncertain weather–uncharacteristic dry spells interspersed with intense rain.
“Our vulnerability to extreme rainfall is increasing as land development is changing drainage patterns,”
So why was the flood of 2018 as devastating as the 3,368 mm rainfall that Kerala received 94 years ago (locally called the “deluge of 99”, since it occurred in the year 1099 of the Malayalam calendar)?
That’s because Kerala has reduced its capacity to deal with such extreme floods by allowing illegal stone quarrying, cutting down forests and grasslands, changing drainage patterns and sand mining on river beds, said experts.
Madhav Gadgil, ecologist and founder of the Centre for Ecological Sciences at the Indian Institute of Science
“These quarries cause deforestation and block the natural streams, which help in reducing the intensity of the floods.”
Most of the 373 casualties in Kerala were caused by landslides in the northern districts of Malappuram and Wayanad, and the central district of Idukki.
Gadgil is the lead author of a 2011 government-commissioned studywritten by the Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel (WGEEP)–commonly called the Gadgil committee report–which he headed. The report recommended that development be restricted in the Western Ghats, which sprawls across six states, including Kerala.
The change in land use came at a time of increasingly uncertain weather–uncharacteristic dry spells interspersed with intense rain.
“Our vulnerability to extreme rainfall is increasing as land development is changing drainage patterns,”
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