Flood management: Floods wreak havoc in Andhra & Karnataka atleast 200 people killed.

When the desert in Gulf counties are constructing resevoirs (Dams) where even drinking water source is ocean than why the Indian Govt. is not thinking/proposing for this idea.

Low lying areas if fed with the reservoirs then the control over flood havoc could be achieved.

Make a large network of Canals and Pipe networks. Whenever the water has to be sent to another place that is of a lower level a canal can be formed and if the water has to sent to a place that is higher a pipe system must be formed. I am talking about very large diameter pipes, say of the diameter of around 7 to 10 meters or even above. Massive pumps would be required to pump the water up these pipes (more massive that the pumps at panama canal). During times such as floods the water can be pumped under high pressure. This network would at the same time solve both the flood and the drought problems of our country. A special toll road and rail network can be built on or on the side of these pipes and the toll can be used for paying the cost of creating and maintaining these network. This system would connect the Brahmaputra to the Yamuna to the Narmada and the Kavery rivers – East to West to North to South of the country. This also would create a very good employment and business opportunity. Can also be used to generate power using micro power stations.

This is a very large system may be very expensive, but not impossible. We only need a great political leader who has a vision to think and execute this (Which I feel, we unfortunately do not have at this moment). 

Construction of flood embankments in fact aggravated flood fury. Because of truncated passage through river, the excessive rain water create massive heads along these manmade embankments when these embankments breach, it creates havoc. Thus the flood embankments should have been shortened so that flood water overtop these embankments & flood a very vast area all along the flooded river. In large area when the water flooded its havoc would be distributed & minimised. Further the land which would be flooded (maximum half a meter height) with very low velocity would be very fertile after the water recedes. Thus this would be win win situation.

Atleast now they should give importance to Embankments and I think this is very important where the embankments of rivers are not properly designed, and when there is flood the water overflows and causes havoc.  So according to me this is very important in Flood management and the spacing of embankments and their alignment needs a careful consideration with respect to their vulnerability to the river and the rise of high flood levels on account of reduction in flow area and also increase in peak discharge due to the reduction in flood plain storage by construction of the embankment. Finalisation of the alignment and the spacing with due consideration to the above factors and at the same time optimizing the benefit from the proposed embankment would need considerable experience of the river behavior and then the studies of the effects of the embankments along different alignments.

In view of the widely varying nature of the rivers, no general recommendation about spacing of embankment can substitute the need for the above studies. The following general guide lines about the minimum spacing etc. are however given, mainly with an idea to check the tendency of excessive encroachment of the natural flood plain of the river.

There would be many other things which are really important in Flood management system, so let us take the current example of Flood and let us come up with some effective solutions to tackle this kind of problem in future.

There should be efeective disaster management training given to Police/Fire force/Administration personnel/Armed forces as well as the lethargic Politicians.

There is now no coordination on crisis management and each one is doing in ones own way.

The \district admn waits for NGOs to do the job first.then comes police who are totally at loss to figure out the term HELP(you cant blame them) and the fire force who are at any given time the least numbered .

Its a pity that the defence forces come in only if they are requested!!!!.it should change. they should be at the place on default!!

PREVENTION is better than CURE.Here i am not asking to prevent NAtural calamities. but the canals ,dams and the design of the layouts and the  dams and canals should take nature into account.it should not be done opposing the natural slope and terrain. |This causes trouble during heavy rains etc.the water takes the natural course and nobody can stop.

Another is the ususal raga-All works to be constructed properly without cutting corners and swallowing public money.proper maintainence to be taken up regularly.

These above are important because...

The sad part is Any natural calamity is taken as BOON by the officials/Politicians -They can rake in the aid money.ITs lottery for them.

Because some of the states were in need of water as U.P., Bihar, Haryana etc a months ago and nowadays but Ganga , Yamuna have less water whereas Rivers flowing from Nepal are superfluos and water is simply drained out in form of Floods .Huge money is invested in form of flood relief where as this problem is forever. then why should we not regulate the water resource and manage it as per need.

On the equal

It is impossible to prevent the floods – since we cannot control the nature. However we can think of a few options to reduce the impact of floods. These are certainly expensive options but it is better to spend once – rather than spending every time for relief works.

1. Everybody knows that the water flowing from high altitude to low results in flood – when it does not get cleared in time or in other words if inflow is more than outflow – this results in flood.
2. Over the years main areas hit by floods very frequently are known. Topography of these areas is also known.
3. Thus from this flow pattern or path of water flow should be worked out.
4. At various locations in the water path/s, water reservoirs i.e. large tanks should be constructed.
5. A network of channels should be made across the rivers at important locations.
6. Water outlets - if any - should be maintained clean and obstacle free.
7. Road levels must be elevated wherever possible – this will help to some extent to prevent roads going under water.

Any thing that we try to overcome the nature will not get success. One will definetely have the side effects of it. Olden days there were no dams which stores water in heavy quantity.
We used to have local water bodies which will be filled whenever there is rain. Now a days all such small and middle size waterbodies near the villages are dried up because the natural water catchment is controlled at some major points by these heavy dams. Result of which smaller waterbodies are not getting filled and Ground water level in those areas are going down.
Whenever there is heavy rain we can observe in last 100years floods caused more damage than in the past after construction of such dams. It is only after construction of such dams ground water level is touching more than 300ft in many villages where as earlier it used to be around 15 to 20 ft.

Nature will look for its own way to maintain the balance in nature. as a result we can witness those floods. Rain occured only for twodays. but the destruction caused would be beared by us lifetime.

It is as simple as this . Why one shall get HIV aids. and look for curing. In the total past we are witnessing floods every year here and there only since last century. Before that nature was balanced and no floods, very rearly we witnessed them. It is the greedy nature of man to arrest the water from its natural flow.

Sincere advice is not to overcome nature.

floods--- means excess of water. Controlling it means water management.

water in cold form is solid ice. Consider those snow capped mountains in arctic region, and general other snow capped mountains. Some months earlier a statement of an astraunaut was published in paper "every time he sees to those snow capped mountains, he feels like those mountains are loosing there snow caps". ... Reason Global warming. Where do these snow go? They became water, which appear to us as floods, through a long process(no need to explain that).

        Today worl is in very heavy need of energy. Hydro-electricity, petro-chemical electricity, nuclear electricity.... Consider an alternative- a law of physics, I learnt in 12 th standard(so do not remember exactly). Connect a hot body to cold body with some special metals. Heat is converted to electricity. further to add later...

Just as Holland did in the 19th Century, we too must use dredging as a way to increase depth of river so that it can accomodate more flood water.

With constant and quick decrease in number of trees, there is and will be soil erosion. So dredging is definately required.

We must look at the option of afforestation since it is required for:

• combating global warming (which in turn is increasing the intensity and frequency of such disasters) and,
• reducing soil erosion which reduces the depth of rivers, canals, lakes, etc.

Canal networking & efficient storm water disposal systems can avert the worst of floods occuring so frequently in India. Though the planning and execution of many projects under the irrigation department / JNURM has taken shape in last 20 years, efficiency is greatly reduced by inability of networking and maintainence by authorities. A master plan is required to be put together keeping disaster management techniques in mind.

Through PAS people can be pre-warned of possible damage & can be evacuted to safe place

Flood shelter & cyclone shelter should be constructed in affected zones to minimise casualty

land mafioso :: nobody can control them :: they are the government

Statistical Authorities in India have a reasonably accurate detail for the distribution of population and assets right from the Panchayat level upwards. The Meteorological Authorities have accurate data on weather and precipitation details. Proposals can be made from the Panchayat level upwards for effective solutions with National Disaster Management Cell as an Apex Body with adequate funds.. proactive rather than 'reactive' intervention can not only avert the crisis but turn it to beneficial development activity with rural employment pitched in extensively. It is indeed unfortunate that we the populace blame things on the redundancy and purported corruption of the  Executive and politicians and pull back the positive steps we could be taking. I am totally with the visions of our ex President.

naveen

If job security is removed from govt. system than corruption automatically removed, if we do privatisation of one govt. deppt. than it become working and profitable.

Be sensitive on Global Warming.Reduce Carbon Di Oxide generation, Reduce Energy Consumtion . Warming to be arrested.

Then Snow of Glaciers will not melt so fast,

Sea level will not increase so fast.

Evaporation of water also will reduce.

May be disaster caused by torrential rain may reduce.

Linking the rivers is the only solution for controlling floods in India.Areas where there is scanty rainfall can be benefitted by this.The disaster management people must rush in at the site without any delay or the army must be roped in to evcuate the low lying areas.

Small capacity reservoirs in low lying areas will avoid floods and also the water table will be distributed evenly through out the land area.

We would be making another man made disaster if we connect any rivers.

true the perrinial  iivers if connected to other seasonal rivers would be a great idea BUT it wont work.We will be going aganist the nature.If they(rivers) could find the right topographical course they would have connected by themselves.The terrain between these rivers are not right for connecting.The moment we try to do it they would find some other least resistive way and create havoc.

Its easy to imagine but when you get down to the bottom of all it will surely not be the right solution to the problem.

We can minimise the floods by interconnecting the rivers to some extent?

Monitoring of water levels indifferent small and big dams in karnataka by karnataka as well as andhra officials can help in releasing the water in phased manner so that it does not lead to sudden floods.  In monsoon season both governments should jointly hold meetings.