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Why is Bangladesh vulnerable to flooding?

There are several key factors that make Bangladesh prone to flooding:
Bangladesh is very densely populated being almost 3 times as dense as India with about 1.6
thousand people per 1 square kilometer resulting in a proportionally great demand of wood
extraction and more agricultural farm land which can be sustained by deforestation, and the
level of deforestation has become so great that Bangladesh has experienced one of the
highest rate of deforestation in south Asia at 2600 hectares per year, and as the demand of
resources increases by 10% each year it’s only getting worse, also with deforestation the
rate of interception of runoff significantly, it has been calculated the deforestation of trees
can leave up to 45% more rainfall left over for flooding due to lack of interception. Also
because of the fact that 80% of Bangladesh is classified as flood plain, these are much more
susceptible to being flooded as a result of overflow. As a result of most of Bangladesh being
a delta to one of the major rivers flowing through Bangladesh- Brahmaputra, Ganges and
Meghna, because deltas are made of the slow deposition of sediments, they are usually not
very much above sea level, and now with the building of upstream dams, silt is trapped and
the deltas are starved of getting more sediment, this paired with the fact that Bangladesh
needs to fulfill increasing demands and pump more Natural Gas and Petroleum, can lead to
the level of the land of deltas to decrease significantly contributing to the scale of floods.

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