India floods fuelled by climate change, rapid development
While India's northern Himachal Pradesh state often sees landslides and flash floods, unregulated construction and torrential rains are exacerbating natural disasters in the mountainous region.
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00:16 Where I am standing now, this is the part of the four-lane road.
00:20 Before the flood in July, this was a four-lane road.
00:25 Today, it is a two-lane road.
00:34 [Music]
01:04 Suddenly, the flood came so hard that there were other buses with it.
01:08 There were 40-50 other vehicles.
01:11 All of them were washed away.
01:13 There was a lot of loss.
01:15 Now the bus is in such a state that it has to pay more maintenance than its value.
01:20 So I think it is difficult that it will not be able to be built.
01:24 [Music]
01:44 This disaster is a man-made disaster.
01:47 The dam was left without water.
01:54 So this became a mixture.
01:57 And because of climate change, the rains are increasing every year.
02:01 So we did not follow the dam safety management.
02:07 We did not follow the precautions to know how much water to release and when to do it.
02:14 [Music]
02:25 The dam, the mega project, the road cuttings, the illegal mining of the Gramindh road,
02:36 the construction of houses on the riverbed, all of this came in combination.
02:40 This is a great learning for the people of India and the nation.
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