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Sources: WFP Emergency Preparedness and Response Branch,
Pakistan flood affected areas 10.08.2010; OCHA, Pakistan - Situation Overview by Province, 11.08.2010; BBC Press review, 2010.
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Victims and affected people in Pakistan flood, August 2010
Seasonal fooding can occur along all the major watersheds
in the Himalayan region (Figure 11–14). The largest problems
occur in food prone areas with high population densities.
This includes parts of northeast India, south-central Nepal,
central and southern Pakistan, large parts of Bangladesh and
lower reaches of the large rivers in China. In India around
40 million people are affected by fooding annually and the
damage has been estimated to USD 240 million as an annual
average. Here 40 million hectares of land are at risk every
year. An average of 1800 people are killed by foods each yearin India, which is roughly one quarter of the total number ofpeople killed in natural disasters.