The recent extreme flooding that occurred across areas of Pakistan such as the Sindh Province, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, and the Punjab Province, along with the area of the Indus River was in most cases totally unexpected in terms of it’s extensiveness and destructive forces.
Apart from over 1,600 deaths reported; over 7,000 residential homes were displaced by the flood waters, with over 33 million people affected by the floods and approximately over 14 million people made homeless. (Along with major crop loss, the floods also resulted in the deaths of over 150,00 livestock.) The continuous and particularly heavy monsoon rains which were attributed to the climatic occurrence of La Nina caused the flooding, and even affected cities such as Karachi.
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The degree of devastation was unprecedented. Many will recall that the heavy rains followed a heatwave where temperatures rose to as high as 51 degrees Celsius (over 123 degrees Fahrenheit) across many parts of Pakistan. It seems that the increased weather flux of Climate Change has reached a point where greenhouse gas reduction should become more dramatic. One significant lesson for the Pakistan Climate Change event is that infrastructure damage has been enormous and extremely costly to the country.
The damage to houses along with other infrastructure has been exhausted by both historical and building practice.
It is now very important (in regard to the extremity of these Climate events), for Policy makers to both review and implement building methods and practices across many more areas so as to further revise Technical Standards which are to be followed when constructing new buildings in relation to the current incidence of Climate Change…
Peace and Love to everyone across the planet, L.D.K
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Peace and Love everyone!! L.D.K