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News articles on the flood
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Flood in Bihar (India) displaces millions
Anshu Gupta of Goonj told us on the phone, that this is worse than the Asian Tsunami. Normally, a flood is the overflow water of a river. But, in this case, the Koshi river of Bihar has completely changed its course and is just running through multiple villages on its new path and causing major devastation to life and property.
Bihar continues to battle the scourge of flood which has swamped the entire region. Although the catastrophe has been declared as a natural calamity, the region still needs support, donations and help from volunteers to come forward and rescue millions of people who need desperate help.
This is India's Katrina, only the challenges could be bigger. Like the Mississippi breached the levee to drown an unsuspecting New Orleans in the US, the mighty Kosi river in north Bihar has broken its embankment to pick up a channel it had abandoned over 200 years ago, drowning towns, numerous villages and rendering over 5 million homeless. Unlike floods, this is not calm water but an angry torrent, making relief work very difficult.
Families have been washed away, millions have been rendered homeless and even army is struggling to reach out to all the areas which are affected. They desperately need life jackets, boats and medicines to save lives. What you get to see in the media is just tip of the crisis, almost 200,000 people are missing and actual death toll is impossible to predict as the water level are still rising . Yesterday, Nepal released 2.5 million cusecs of water, and water level has gone up by another three feet. At places the depth of water in farming areas where crops were standing 15 days ago is under 12-14 feet water and the current of water is comparative to ritcher 5 of earthquake intensity.
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