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>ASIA-PACIFIC: Dam waters add to flood in east India
>Financial Times; Jul 21, 2001
>By ANGUS DONALD
>
>A severe flood in the east Indian state of Orissa that
>has affected 6m people worsened yesterday as the
>authorities were forced to release water from a dam
>into the low-lying coastal region.
>
>More than 40 people have died, 7,000 villages have
>been submerged and about 500,000 people have been cut
>off by the flooding. The Indian army and relief
>agencies are working to provide food and to rescue
>those trapped by the waters.
>
>A further 200 villages were flooded yesterday when
>water officials were forced to open the gates of the
>overflowing Hirakud dam, near Sambalpur in the north
>of Orissa, to prevent structural damage.
>
>"The more water that has to be released from the dam,
>the more dangerous the situation becomes in the
>coastal regions," said Hrishikesh Panda, Orissa relief
>commissioner.
>
>The floods have been caused by heavy monsoon rains
>combined with unusually high tides that have prevented
>rivers from discharging into the sea. The state had
>820mm of rain between June 1 and July 18, almost twice
>the normal level.
>
>Rescue attempts have been hampered by a lack of
>resources. "To reach these stranded people we need
>more than 1,000 boats and right now we have 83," said
>Mr Panda. "We have sought help from the army, other
>state governments and even from private boat owners."
>
>Orissa is still recovering from a "supercyclone" in
>November 1999. Winds of 300km an hour battered
>villages, killing at least 10,000 people and
>flattening communities.
>
>According to Mark Mallock Brown,
>undersecretary-general of the United Nations
>Development Programme (UNDP) who visited Orissa in
>February, natural disasters, such as drought, floods
>and cyclones, are increasing because of climatic
>change.
>
>"Orissa is part of a new global frontline in the war
>against disaster," he said, "with the eastern part of
>the state vulnerable to floods and cyclones and the
>western part vulnerable to droughts. A great drama of
>nature is being played out in the state."
>
>Copyright: The Financial Times Limited
>
>
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