Growing ravages of floods: Is there any way to avoid destruction? – eSHOP24X7

The United Nations World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said Monday that flood incidents related to heavy rains and glacier floods are continuously increasing. Their results are demonstrating to be extremely fatal for communities in controlling these sudden floods without any previous warning.

The director of Hydrology, Water and Cryosphere of the OMM, Stephan Uhlanbruk, said: “Sudden floods are not new, but due to unplanned urbanization, the change in the use of the land and the change of climate, the frequency and intensity of the floods now increase continuously in many areas.”

When each additional degree of cilosis temperature increases, the atmosphere can accumulate approximately 7 percent more water vapor, within itself.

He said: “The risk of excessive rainfall is increasing from this situation. In addition, due to the warm climate, the threat of grout for melted ice is also increasing.”

Thousands of deaths every year

Thousands of people die every year in floods and accidental incidents of flooding and loss of billions of dollars.

In 2020, more than 6 thousand people died and registered an economic loss of $ 105 billion in severe flood incidents in various parts of southern Asia.

Two years later, in 2022, more than 1,700 people died in the disastrous floods in Pakistan, more than 3.3 million people were affected and more than $ 40 billion damaged, which caused years of damage to grow years of development progress.

This year he has not stopped this year either. Only in July, one after another in southern Asia, Oriental Asia and the United States, the mortal extreme incidents of the floods were observed: heavy monsoon rains, some of the glacial lakes that exploit and accidental fresses sudden disastrous.

Monzónico ravages continues in Asia

Due to the heavy rains of the monsoon in India and Pakistan, the transport system stopped, the houses were dragged and landslides occurred in many places.

The emergency has been declared in the most affected areas of Pakistan and military helicopters have been deployed for relief and rescue operations after warning of serious floods at the top of the Jhelum River.

South Korea registered a record rain between July 16 and 20, where the rain rate in some areas reached more than 115 mm per hour. At least 18 people died in this disaster and more than 13,000 people had to be transferred to safe places.

On July 21, a sudden flood was issued and a landslide warning in southern China, exactly one day after typhoon VAFA in Hong Kong. The constant storms have made the growing risks in this area even clearer.

Issue flooding in Taxus during the night

On the night of July 3 to 4, the sudden torrential rains converted the mountainous region of Taxus into the scene of destruction, in which more than 100 people lost their lives and many people disappeared.

10–18 inches (25–46 cm) of rain in a few hours drowned the Gwadalup river, and the river water level reached 26 feet (8 meters) in just 45 minutes.

Most of the victims were girls who came to live in the summer camp and put themselves in sudden flood control around 4 am.

Although the National Meteorological Service of the United States had already issued a warning, the local siren system was defeated and the final warning was issued when the majority of the people deeply slept.

Increase in flood incidents due to the decomposition of the glow

All floods that arrived this month were not only due to the rain.

On July 7, some hydroelectric plants, an important bridge and several trade routes were dragged into the sudden floods of a “supraglassel” lake on the surface of a glacier in the Nepal Rasuwa district.

At least 11 people died in this horrible incident, while many people are still missing.

The scientists of the International Center (ICIMOD) for the partner of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), Hill’s integrated development says that the floods of glaciers in the Hindukush-Himalaya region are now seen more than before, while two decades ago, such floods generally arrived once every five to ten years.

Only during May and June 2025, Nepal, Afghanistan and Pakistan registered three floods related to glacial explosions, and on July 7, two more incidents occurred in Nepal.

Scientists believe that if the global temperature continues to increase at this speed, then by the end of this century, the threat of such flood incidents can increase three times.

It is necessary to join the failures of the warning system

WMO (World Meteorological Organization) is now accelerating its global efforts to improve the flood prognosis. Its real time guide platform is now being used in more than 70 countries.

This system integrates the meteorological model with satellite and radar data to detect the possible danger several hours in advance. Now it is expanding as another globally coordinated system under the leadership of countries.

In 2022, a World Bank study estimated that 1.81 billion people -I have approximately a quarter of the world -100 population, is directly threat to incidents as serious floods.

Of this population, 89 percent of people live in low and medium -sized income countries.

The purpose of the “early warnings of the United Nations for all” (prior to the warning for Sarvajan) is to provide security systems for initial warning systems to each person in the world by 2027.