Geography 2153A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Cash Crop, Risk Assessment, Alsn
28 Jun 2016
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July 2010, the monsoon rains came in torrents in pakistan and did not let up for weeks. The water spilled over levees on the river, which hold the water back from populated areas, and water poured across cities and farms. The pakistan floods of 2010 killed thousands of people, displaced hundreds of thousands, left 6 million people without access to clean water, and did more than 40 billion of damage to infrastructure and crops. In the 19th century, engineers have gone to great lengths to manage and control the river, with complex systems of diversions of diversion and engineering. That system was designed to maximize the productivity of the system for farming, decreasing the risk of year-to-year flooding so that cash crop agriculture might thrive. The effort to reduce short-term risk for crops actually increased the long-term risk of catastrophic flooding.
