Devestating floods hit Bangledesh!

... Geography Coursework: Bangledeshi Floods DEVESTATING FLOODS HIT BANGLADESH!! Bangladesh is a country already tied down by huge economic debts, poverty and now a major flood - the biggest in 20 years. River floods occur when the amount of water flowing in a drainage basin or watershed (the area that collects and directs the surface Water into the streams that drain it) exceeds the carrying capacity of rivers Which drain the area. The annual monsoon's that hit the bengali coast lashed down, causing two of the biggest rivers in Asia, the River Ganges and the River Brahmaputra, to but there banks, thus flooding the capital city Dhaka and other key areas. Also as a result of this flood, one of the main Bengali exports and item of trade, rice, has been more or less lost. This will cause a severe dent in Bangladeshi's already floundeing economy. With the estimated clean

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