Chennai Floods

A Man-made Natural
Disaster .

E V S. .
#Geographically
-

↳ Flood Plain .
Dus to flat terrain.

↳ Natural Water Channel + drain

suchage in monsoon season

↳
Emonnected
wetlands >
-

storage and dranage of excessive

during
water the monsoon .

Futection
against Cyclones'
↳ Wetlands act as natural
.
buffer
↳ Absorbe excess water

Reduce storm
surge impact
.

Safeguard costal
community.

& Urban Planningi

Kiliency
↳ Wetland acts as cities
resilieng.
↳ Urban be to wetlands
planning needs to sensitive these .
#pidanization :

↳ ITdoom
2000s
↳ Unstable + Unscientific Urbanization

↳ in
green cover .

↳ Encrachment of Wetlands (Water bodies

Em in wetland's water
regulatory function .

#5hennaiFli
↳ NOU -
Dec 2015 [Highest recorded rainfall]
Cause Eastern Earitorial
↳ +
Heating in
Pacific ocean
.

↳ El Nino Event

↳ Lakes Encroached - capacity to handle Surcharge

.

↳ Impact amplified as wetland

degradation
.
 # Other = >
issue

① Water
Shortage & Wetland Disconnection
↳ Encroachment of wetland
↳
Rely on
ground water during summer
.

② Ground water depletion .

↳ Over reliance -
depletion
.

and also contributes

↳ poor surface water circulatin
storage
↳ Przhal Reservoir [largest in
Chennai] saw decline in water

level in summer