Water Water Everywhere, Not A Drop To Drink!by | 10-09-2014 01:21 |
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  Well, life saver water sometimes becomes hard to handle! Bangladesh is one of the low lying lands. Measurements say more than 40% of land in Bangladesh is only 1 meter above the sea level. That's a countable reason for this year's flood in Bangladesh, besides the heavy rainfall in the wet season is also responsible for this. These are basically the natural causes, which is hard to control. But sometimes nature is not the only one to be blamed. We Bangladeshis are sometimes so careless about nature, environment, specially the repercussions of the damages we make to our mother planet earth. Before drawing the big picture of this year's flood in Bangladesh, I must add a few things. Firstly, urbanization in Bangladesh is so unplanned and mismanaged that there are hardly any land to soak the rain water, since the whole land is covered with high rise buildings and pitch ground. And deforestation is another contributor to the country's environment disaster. Deforestation causes the soil to erode and fill the river bed. For which the low lying lands are over flowed with flooded water. More over, the drainage system is not that well managed. Most Bangladeshis are literate, that's true, but not scientifically literate, which makes them throw their garbage straight to the drainage system. This makes the consequence of the flood worse. Now, I can present some collected data that may not make you happy, but surely can make you conscious about your stability. This year, since 13 Aug 2014, continuous rainfall in north and northeastern Bangladesh, together with the onrush of water from upstream, have caused flash floods in low-lying and densely populated areas. More than 800,000 people have been affected, including 500,000 displaced. As of 25 Aug, humanitarian actors on the ground report nine deaths. And by 1 Sep, the number of affected people had increased to 2.8 million. Among these, more than 57,000 families (275,000 people) are displaced, including more than 31,000 families (150,000 people) whose homes have been totally inundated and destroyed. A total of 99 floods shelters are active in the affected districts, housing some of the displaced population while others have settled in along elevated roads and with host families. Now, the question is, what we can do, what is for us to contribute? It's true that we can not fight nature or the rainfall or we can not even rise up our land so that the flood can't affect. But there are surely some thing for us to do. There is a saying, little drops of water makes the ocean. We individually may be counted as a little drop of water. But together we can make the ocean. How? There are so many ways!- we can raise our voice through campaigns and workshops to create environment literacy. We can involve the young learners to work for the betterment of the environment, we can make them scientifically literate so that they not only contribute themselves, but also they involve others to contribute as well. It's a chain thing. And believe me, it works! |
