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Table 6.11 Damage to Infrastructure by Recent Floods
Damage Event 2004 Flood 2007 Flood 2008 Flood
No. <strong>of</strong> Affected District
No. <strong>of</strong> Affected Upazila
No. <strong>of</strong> Affected Pourashava,
No. <strong>of</strong> Affected Union
Total Affected Area
No. <strong>of</strong> Affected Family
No. <strong>of</strong> Affected People's
Fully damaged crops
Partially damaged crops
No. <strong>of</strong> fully damaged household
No. <strong>of</strong> partially damaged household
No. <strong>of</strong> death people
No. <strong>of</strong> Injured People
No. <strong>of</strong> Livestock death
No. <strong>of</strong> fully damaged educational
institutions
No. <strong>of</strong> partially damaged educational
institutions
Fully damaged roads
Partially damaged roads
No. <strong>of</strong> damaged bridges/culverts,
Embankment (Fully Damaged)
Embankment (Partially Damaged)
Source: DMB, 2008 and Relief Web, 2008
52
39 39 22
265 254 86
--- 67 06
2,492 1965 481
21,420 Sq. km 32000 3,394.13
74,68,128 2264933 2,25,009
3,63,37,944 1,05,72,145
9,74,461
16,05,958 acr. 7,55,047 acr. 21,62 8 acr.
10,38,176 acr 7,62,653 acr 3,26,71 7 acr.
1,55,182 62,96 5 11,44 8
1,20,45,484 8,81,92 2 75,45 3
277 3,363 7
55,28 2 --
4,973 871 ----
1,155 510 49
12,893 7,040 405
6,641 km 2,869 km 58 km
26,884 km 1,714 km 1,912.1 km
5,478 km 7,164 km 97 km
2,215 km
87 km 8.55 km
731 km 99.35 km
6.8 Health
Many scientists already anticipated that more frequent and more intense and severe weather events will result in
increased deaths, injuries and disease in developed countries like Canada, but the biggest impact will be felt in
low-lying, heavily populated areas such as Bangladesh, particularly when coupled with sea level rise attendant
upon global warming (Canadian Association <strong>of</strong> Physicians for the Environment, 2004). According to IPCC (2001),
the global warming would increase the vector borne and water borne diseases in the tropics. Best-estimate
<strong>climate</strong> <strong>change</strong> scenario indicates that the incidences <strong>of</strong> dengue may increase threefold in Indonesia (ADB,
1994b in IPCC, 1997). In fact, the increasing trend and variation <strong>of</strong> dengue occurrences are consistent with the
corresponding trend and variation <strong>of</strong> temperature, which infers that the anticipated future warming in
Bangladesh might increase the dengue occurrence (NAPA Study note).
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