Millions of people Have Been Displaced by the floods
The Recent floods in Pakistan's Indus Valley are of Truly Biblical proportions.
The UN Estimates That the Humanitarian Crisis is now Larger Than the Effects of the combined worst-three natural Thurs Disasters strike in the past Decade.
These include the The tsunami and the major Earthquakes That devastated Kashmir and Haiti.
The headline figure of 1.700 Masks killed the real scale of the disaster that much Displaced 14 million people.
As I write, the southern city of Hyderabad, with a population of 1.5 million, stands on the Brink of inundation as peak flood waters surge downstream.
Scientists not have described this catastrophe as a once-in-a-century flood.
But Zapraszamy Climate Change That mean this Magnitude of floods, or Even bigger, Become a more regular occurrence?
The "Great Mother"
The Indus is one of the world's great rivers.
From ITS head waters in the Himalayas of Tibet, it flows north-west through India before turning sharply south across Pakistan. It finally discharges into the Arabian Sea, a Journey of some 3.200 kilometers (2.000 miles).
Awaiting some of the ITS was random water from melting Himalayan GLACIERS, the majority is recently dumped by the summer monsoon.
As torrential rain sweeps in from the Indian Ocean, floods are triggered Almost annually.
Humans not have had long experience of the Indus floods.
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