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Pakistan Flooding 2010

The Pakistan Disaster Record monsoon rains in July quickly accumulated to cause massive flooding. Pakistan Swat In the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of 1.7 million people, about one million have been The affected 600,000 people in need of help area stretches from the Swat Valley in the north to Sindh made destitute by the flooding. Sindh made destitute by flooding in the south. 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Population of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ..equal to the 1 million people who were affected by Hurricane Elena in the Whole villages have been washed away, leaving many residents with... NO SHELTER NO MEDICAL SUPPLIES NO FOOD 2.0 Nearly Need Food Around 1.5 1,000,000 1,800,000 1.0 Need Shelter people have lost their homes or been forced to flee. are in need of food aid. 0.5 More than the population of Phoenix 0.0 More than the population of San José San José, CA, US Population: 964,695 Phoenix, AZ, US Population: 1,601,587 The government managed to distribute 10,000 food packs in the 10 days following the disaster. They only fed 80,000 people. Still Need Food MRE 1,720,000 Data from the World Meteorological 0rganization say that the most heavily affected areas have already received about 180% of the rainfall expected in a normal cycle. NORMAL RAINFALL 0% 100% 180% The United Nations has rated the floods in Pakistan as the greatest humanitarian crisis in recent history, with more people affected than the South-East Asian tsunami and the recent earthquakes in Kashmir and Haiti combined. BIGGER THAN Pakistan South-East Asia Kashmir Haiti Pakistan South-East Asia, Kashmir, & Haiti 6,100 Deaths 610,000 13.8 M In need of aid 11.8 M 3000000 6000000 9000000 12000000 15000000 3000000 6000000 9000000 12000000 15000000 People People Unicef is currently providing enough clean water for 1.3 million, but millions more are in need. ..Including 3.5 million children at high risk of deadly diseases such as diarrhea and cholera. 00 20 million people and 62,000 square miles of land have been affected - about one fifth of the country. Of the 15 million seriously affected, about half of those are children. "The emergency phase will require hundreds of millions of dollars and the recovery and reconstruction part will require billions of dollars." -Jean-Maurice Ripert, the United Nations special envoy the disaster The government's fear of a backlash is believed to be behind the blocking of cable TV channels on August 8th. CENSORSHIP PAKISTAN'S 10 LARGEST NATURAL DISASTERS 1990-2010 I Flood I Drought I Earthquake I Storm 2010 Flooding 15,000,000 This late 1992 flood affected almost twice as many people as 2007 flooding in the UK. 139 Mi1 Pakistan's 2001 earthquake affected almost twice as many people as Hurricane Katrina. 20 Million Affected (as of August 17th) 12,000,000 9,000,000 The 1999 drought affected about ten times more people than the Three Mile Island nuclear accident. 6,000,000 3,000,000 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 PAKISTAN'S NATURAL DISASTERS SINCE 1900 Earth- quake CCyclone Storm/ Lạnd- slide Extreme Temp. C Epidemic Flood Drought 000000.●●• 67 23 23 20 15 10 number of occurrences http://www.theirc.org/news/irc-ground-flood-ravaged-pakistan-situation-desperate-9144?gclid-CM3oifn8raMCFQxW2god8IN14w http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/7935485/Pakistan-floods-disaster-is-the-worst-in-the-UNs-history.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-10917561 http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/dbc.nsf/doc100?0penForm http://www.emdat.be/ http://ochaonline.un.org http://news.yahoo.com/s/usnw/20100817/pl_usnw/DC51772 http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2010/08/17/17greenwire-westem-donations-lag-for-pakistan-flood-victi-56219.html http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100816/ap_on_re_as/as_pakistan_floods http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-10883524 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-10948275 DISASTER ZONE Millions of People Number of People Affected SOURCES

Pakistan Flooding 2010

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Flooding began in Pakistan in July 2010 caused by monsoon rains affecting the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Sindh, Punjab as well as parts of Baluchistan. It is thought that at least 2000 people have been kille...

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