Geography Optional 300+ Score Pack · Model answer
Account for the growing frequency and intensity of floods in India, and suggest short- and long-term remedial measures indicating the chronically flood-prone areas.
- UPSC 2015
- Contemporary Issues
The rainfall regime has changed shape, not size. Work led by Roxy Mathew Koll, with Subimal Ghosh, Milind Mujumdar and Raghu Murtugudde, found a threefold rise in widespread extreme rain events over central India between 1950 and 2015 (2017) even as seasonal totals fell: the same water in fewer, fiercer spells.
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- Why floods are growing more frequent and more intense
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- Short-term remedial measures
- Long-term remedial measures
- Chronically flood-prone areas
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