Hey everyone! I am again continuing the previous blog. Here we will get to know about a few more disaster management strategies.

FLOOD MANAGEMENT 

Flood management has two dimensions :

A) Flood control measures.

B) rescue and relief operations.

There are following flood control measures :

• Construction of small dams on the rivers.
• Raise and strengthen the side dams.
• Control the water discharge of rivers by making canals.
• Removal of unwanted silt from the river and thus increasing the depth of river which enhances the water carrying capacity.
• Construction of bigger dam is avoided which increases the water load on the earth's surface.
• Reforestation programmes should be carried out.

Following are the flood rescue and relief operations :

• Relief operations should be carried out at each and every level.
• Houses in flood porne areas should be vacated before the arrival of flood and houses are to be built on platforms or elevated areas.
• Sand bags can be used for redirecting the river water flow in the event of flood.
• Flood forecasting and warning systems should be installed.
• Immediate rescue operations for the people surrounded in the flood by employing boat, helicopter or any other means.
• Medical facility should be availed to the flood affected people.

DROUGHT MANAGEMENT

• Afforestation and reforestation programme should be implemented honestly so that green shelter belts are developed.
• Adoption of water harvesting measures.
• Buffer stocks of food grains are to be maintained.
• Multipronged drought prone area programmes are to be followed.
• Control of population explosion.
• Control of soil and water erosion.
• Watershed management.

CYCLONE MANAGEMENT 

• Establishing cyclone early warning systems involving observations, predictions, warnings and user friendly advisories.
• Taking up structure mitigation measures like improving a structural lifeline infrastructure, construction of multi-purpose cyclones shelters and cattle mounds, ensuring cyclone resistant design standards in rural and urban housing schemes, building all the weather road links, bridges, culverts and saline embankments etc.
• Management of coastal zones to include mapping and delineation of coastal wetlands, patches of mangroves and shelter belts and identification a potential zones for expanding bio-shields spread based on remote sensing tools.
• Setting of exclusive ecosystem monitoring network to study the impact of climate change.
• Implementing the National Cyclone Risk Mitigation Project (NCRMP) in all coastal states and UTs.

TSUNAMI MANAGEMENT

• To get disaster sensitive system.
• Planting of trees in the coastal belt and such coastal shelter belts used in density of Tsunami.
• All the cyclone management measures are to be adopted.

Adoption of these measures can surely reduce the losses of life and property in case of natural disasters.