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13 Cards in this Set
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Water on Land Floods (MEDC) Boscastle - Cause |
- 60mm of rain in 2 hours - 125mm in several hours - 3 rivers flooded - River Valency - River Jordan - River Paradise |
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Water on Land Floods (MEDC) Boscastle - Effects |
- 3 injuries - 6 buildings swept away - 0 deaths Secondary - Tourism had to shut - Insurance costs |
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Water on Land Floods (MEDC) Boscastle - Responses |
- Emergency services called - 150 people air lifted Long Term - Repair buildings - Early warning system |
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Floods (LEDC) Bangladesh - Causes |
- 80% of Bangladesh is a flood plain |
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Floods (LEDC) Bangladesh - effects |
Primary - 2000 dead - 36 million homeless Secondary - 1 million caught water born diseases - 4000 schools shut |
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Floods (LEDC) Bangladesh - responses |
- Emergency relief - clean water - UN supplied need assessment Long term - Financial aid for 5 years - self help schemes to rebuild areas |
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Water storage and transport Kielder Dam - location |
- Built in Newcastle - High precipitation rates - Poor farmland - Sparsely populated |
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Water on Land Water storage and transport Kielder Dam - why it was set up |
- The dam was built as demand for water was expected to exceed supply |
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Water on Land Water storage and transport Kielder Dam - advantages and disadvantages |
- Sell water to all of England - economic - Leisure activities - Social, Economic - Hydro-electric power - Environmental Disadvantages - Displaced farming communities - Social, Environmental - Waste of money - economic |
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Water storage and transport Kielder Dam - was it successful |
- no because the dam was never full so families were displaced for no reason and money was wasted |
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Flood management River Tees - why it needs management |
- Long history of flash floods |
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Water on Land Flood management River Tees - What are the strategies |
- River straightening - Dam built Soft Engineering - Flood warning - reservoir made to store water normally flowing into the river |
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Water on Land Flood management River Tees - Success |
- River straightening leads to bigger floods down-stream |
