Last year, Careiro da Varzea in the Brazilian state of Amazonas was submerged causing a great deal of damage. This flood was recorded as one of the worst ones in history, which affecting over 300,000 people. The river reached the emergency level and the water remained at homes in poorest area for over 50 days.

Many people were suffering from lack of sanitation, dirty water and difficult to reach to school. People died of bacterial infection from the contaminated water and waited for long time to take transportation. Experts say the climate change causes the unexpected change in weather system. The flooding and drought appeared in Brazil by turn, which is considered as a warning from the nature to human.

In light of this, climate change also requires proper management in construction industry. Nature disaster has been increased over the last decade, from which many residents and businesses have damages and cost a lot to recover and restore. Therefore, proper insurance system and risk management have to be reviewed and make a critical planning.

Water is important. Human cannot live without water but surplus water could harm people as well. Although the earth offers us essential resources, if we cannot take care of it well, we can lose or get suffer from it. The nature keeps sending us warning to stop damage of environment. We should be aware of it.

Source: BBC NEWS