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OVERFLOWING RIVERS                     BROKEN DAMS                                       HEAVY RAINFALL



            Effects of Flood
                  Floods have large social consequences for communities and individuals.
                  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.




            Largest flood in the world.

             China Flood, 1931
            The deadliest flood ever, this monster took between 1 million and 4 million lives. A two-year-long
            drought followed by heavy winter snowstorms, rainy spring and summer months and unusually high
            cyclone activity led to what most consider to be the deadliest natural disaster ever recorded with
            associated famine taken into account.





















            DROUGHT
                  A drought is a long period of lower-than-normal precipitation, usually for more than a season.
                  It results in shortage of water in the region.
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