Flood management
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In Google search
for information of flood defences and controls /preventions / flood management,
I found that there are structural measures and non-structural measures to
tackle the problems of floods, not blood.
The structural
measures for flood management are the building of dams, barrages, river
improvement works (dredging and deepening), monsoon drains, diversion canals,
river bunding, pump houses and ponds.
Non-structural
measures of flood management are Flood hazard map, Relocation, Catchment
management, flood forecasting & warning, Awareness campaign & education
programme, Compliance with laws, acts & guidelines and Master-plan study.
Ng…..we have the good
set of both structural measures and non-structural measures in flood
management. Now the question is why many
places still experience devastating floods frequently. Up to now, there are already 8 counts of such
flood events this year.
At the places
which experienced devastating floods, are these places structurally and
non-structurally well-prepared for floods?
Or…are the people open to the onslaught of floods with little
structural and non-structural measures taken by our government?
It is really
irresponsible and idiotic to leave people barehanded to defend themselves with
the good advice only telling people to dam the doors with sandbags and whatever
to fight the floods in such a ridiculous way.
It is really
irresponsible behaviour in advising individual household to defend themselves
when our government has done almost nothing in flood defences by taking the
required structural and non-structural measures.
When our
government has carried all the possible measures in flood defence, then damming
our doors and other required individual measures should be deemed as the last resort
when other government flood defence measures fail.
