Nature's Fury: Lashes Back at Mankind with Floods, Cloudburst

Bangalore: Man-made developments though lessen the task of human beings, they hamper the nature and ecology. As such, nature has struck back against mankind by taking a toll on human lives in various forms like cloudburst, landslides, floods and earthquake and mainly occurring in climate hotspot areas, reported Suresh Sharma for TOI.

Arbitrary construction of hydroelectric dams especially in mountainous regions proves risky to the people in and around it as the construction involves drilling into the hills or mountain by blasting rocks which leaves huge turbine in the tunnels that further destroy soil-binding vegetation.

Most of the dams are built on the same river and are very close to one another leaving no choice for its renewal and also change the hydrological cycle and natural path of the rivers.

Inhabitants of mountainous region like Kullu are fearfully residing around the hydro electric power project and the newly constructed sites as they have already experienced increasing incidents of cloudbursts and flashfloods in the past few years.

Because of the construction of dams and other projects, numbers of people have risen and there is also a mass cutting down of trees.

According to the scientists, human activities and indiscriminate construction is tampering the natural environment. "We always took the matter of environmental concern very lightly and now, when we know we should respect nature, it is too late. But we can still change our mentality and stop arbitrary construction in fragile mountainous areas and plant more trees. The frequency of cloudbursts is increasing only due to increasing population, increasing pollution and unplanned construction," added J C Kuniyal, an experienced scientist of Himalayan environment, as reported by TOI.

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