Natural disasters such as floods, hurricanes, and earthquakes can cause significant financial, environmental and human losses. The 2011 floods in Sindh Pakistan killed 434 people and affected over 5.3 million homes after heavy monsoon rains. The floods followed devastating 2010 floods and caused extensive damage to Sindh's agriculture. To prevent future flood damage, countries must implement measures like building dams, strengthening river banks, draining stagnant waters, and creating disaster relief organizations.

1. Natural
Disasters
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2. Natural Disasters
A natural disaster is the effect of a
natural hazard (e.g., flood, tornado,
hurricane, volcanic erruption,
earthquake, heatwave, or landslide). It
leads to financial, environmental and
human losses.
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3. Floods
A flood is an overflow of an expanse of water that
submerges land. A flood is a temporary covering of
land by water not normally covered by water. Flooding
may result from the volume of water within a body of
water, such as a river or lake, which overflows or breaks
levees, with the result that some of the water escapes its
usual boundaries. While the size of a lake or other body
of water will vary with seasonal changes in precipitation
and snow melt, it is not a significant flood unless such
escapes of water endanger land areas used by man like a
village, city or other inhabited area.
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4. 2011 Floods in Sindh
 The 2011 Sindh floods began during the Pakistani
monsoon season in mid-August 2011, resulting from
heavy monsoon rains in Sindh, eastern Balochistan, and
southern Punjab.
 The floods have caused considerable damage; an
estimated 434 civilians have been killed, with more than
5.3 million people and 1.5 million homes affected.
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 The flooding follows the previous year's
historic 2010 Pakistan floods, which
devastated the entire country.
Unprecedented torrential monsoon rains
caused severe flooding in 16 districts of
Sindh province.
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 Sindh is a fertile region and often called the
"breadbasket" of the country; the damage
and toll of the floods on the local agrarian
economy is said to be extensive.
 At least 1.7 million acres of arable land
have been inundated as a result of the
flooding.
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7. How to Prevent from the Floods
 By making more Dams.
 By planting trees along the rivers and canals.
 By proper maintenance of rivers and canals.
 By strengthening the banks of the rivers.
 By maintaining drainage systems.
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8. How to Prevent from the Diseases
 By shifting affected people to safer places.
 By Vaccination of common diseases.
 By providing immediate medical care.
 By draining out of the stagnant waters.
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9. How to save the country from flood
damages and losses.
 To establish disaster relief organizations.
 To train the disaster relief workers.
 By creating awareness in the people for the
rescue.
 By strong communication.
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10. Economic Affects
 The crops and cattles got expensive and in lack amount.
 Industries based on agriculture and cattle ranching got
in loss.
 A number of houses and industries got damaged.
 It will lead to the damages of roads, collapse of bridges
or traffic congestion.
 Inflation.
 Resources used in reconstruction.
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11. Social Affects
 A large part of population displaced from their
homes.
 Increase in unemployment.
 A huge destruction of educational institutions
caused long break in education of children.
 Spread out of numerous diseases, which take
long time to recover.
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