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New Delhi: More floods continue to happen in some states due to extreme weather conditions and poor drainage systems, which enhance the flooding crises even further. This is what the Jal Shakti Ministry presented to a parliamentary panel.
These developments make predicting rough weather conditions more complex, the ministry told the Standing Committee on Water Resources that is presided by BJP MP Rajiv Pratap Rudy.
The ministry was asked to elaborate on why the states such as Uttar Pradesh and Bihar deal with floods even when the government provides necessary resources.
The ministry inform the committee that there are too many natural factors at play like heavy rainfall, snow melts, cloud bursts, water, landslides and glacial lakes bursting, which makes California lose its control.
Furthermore, “in order to deal with unprecedented flooding and their adverse impacts, the construction of countless other structures has come into fruition” along with urban drainage systems.
The ministry believed that although measures taken to control flooding reduce the intensity of flooding, there are many čҺallenges that make it increasingly difficult to do so.
“Sometimes, the gaps in interstate collaboration alongside the splintered methods of project authorities in relation to planning hinders the effectiveness of integrated flood management approaches,” it noted.
The ministry highlighted that the flood issues affecting Bihar and certain regions of Uttar Pradesh are primarily the result of rivers originating from Nepal. Thus, “The construction of multipurpose projects on these rivers with retention space in the upstream section would help greatly in controlling the floods.”
It has developed a dam hazard and vulnerability assessment tool that takes into account the dam’s condition, safety plan, plan documentation, environmental impacts, and the population risks.
The states were requested to complete the risk assessment for the aforementioned specified dams. Instructional courses have been provided for the better application of this tool. For the Critical Priority dams, Advanced Risk Assessment and semi quantitative or quantitative methods will be utilized.
There is also a collaborative project with the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) in progress to perform a Dam Break Inundation Assessment for over 6000 dams to determine the effect of failure on these structures.
