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    Water Overtops or Breaks Levees, Resulting in Some of That Water Escaping Its Usual Boundaries

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    A flood is an overflow of water that submerges dry land. It occurs when a body of water, such as a river, lake, or ocean, overflows or breaks barriers due to excess water. Floods are the second most common natural disaster after wildfires. While flooding can provide benefits like replenishing groundwater and spreading nutrients, it can also cause widespread damage by spreading disease, destroying infrastructure and polluting drinking water. Various methods are used to control floods and mitigate damage, such as building dams, levees, and diversion canals, as well as controlling land use and water levels.

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    Water Overtops or Breaks Levees, Resulting in Some of That Water Escaping Its Usual Boundaries

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    A flood is an overflow of water that submerges dry land. It occurs when a body of water, such as a river, lake, or ocean, overflows or breaks barriers due to excess water. Floods are the second most common natural disaster after wildfires. While flooding can provide benefits like replenishing groundwater and spreading nutrients, it can also cause widespread damage by spreading disease, destroying infrastructure and polluting drinking water. Various methods are used to control floods and mitigate damage, such as building dams, levees, and diversion canals, as well as controlling land use and water levels.

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    A flood is an overflow of water that submerges dry land. It occurs when a body of water, such as a river, lake, or ocean, overflows or breaks barriers due to excess water. Floods are the second most common natural disaster after wildfires. While flooding can provide benefits like replenishing groundwater and spreading nutrients, it can also cause widespread damage by spreading disease, destroying infrastructure and polluting drinking water. Various methods are used to control floods and mitigate damage, such as building dams, levees, and diversion canals, as well as controlling land use and water levels.

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    Water Overtops or Breaks Levees, Resulting in Some of That Water Escaping Its Usual Boundaries

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    A flood is an overflow of water that submerges dry land. It occurs when a body of water, such as a river, lake, or ocean, overflows or breaks barriers due to excess water. Floods are the second most common natural disaster after wildfires. While flooding can provide benefits like replenishing groundwater and spreading nutrients, it can also cause widespread damage by spreading disease, destroying infrastructure and polluting drinking water. Various methods are used to control floods and mitigate damage, such as building dams, levees, and diversion canals, as well as controlling land use and water levels.

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    What is Flood?

    • A flood is an overflow of water that submerges land that is usually dry.


    • Flooding may occur as an overflow of water from water bodies, such as a river, lake, or ocean, in which the
    water overtops or breaks levees, resulting in some of that water escaping its usual boundaries
    • Floods are considered second only to wildfires as the most common natural disaster on Earth.
    Areas more prone to flooding in Pakistan:
    Benefits of Flood:

    • Replenishes ground water.


    • Makes soil more fertile by spreading alluvium on active and old flood plains.
    • Flood water provides much needed water resources in arid and semi-arid regions where
    precipitation is low.
    • Flooding can spread nutrients to lakes and rivers, which can lead to increased biomass and improves
    fisheries for a few years.
    • Bird populations may also profit from the boost in food production caused by flooding.
    Disadvantages of Floods:

    • Spread of waterborne diseases.


    • Loss of lives and livelihoods.
    • Loss of vegetation.
    • Destroy infrastructures (roads, pipes, parks, schools etc.). • Pollution of drinking water (clean drinking
    water becomes scarce). • Waterlogging and salinity increases.
    • Fish farms are destroyed.
    • Trade and industries are effected in urban areas.
    Methods to control floods and the damage caused:
    • Control the water level of dams.
    • Construction of new dams.
    • Build barriers (Levees).
    • Alter the river’s channel: Straighten it, widen it or deepen it. • Control land use around
    the river.
    • Diversion canals.
    • Coastal defences.
    • Prepare – Food & medicine kits.
    • Forecast – Warnings issued.
    • Respond – Relief workers and donors.
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