Some common fallacies about floods and flood management

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Some common fallacies about floods and flood management [1]

Floods are an endemic problem in India. Every major flood event is immediately followed by a flood of a different kind

Publication Date:

10/10/2009

Author(s): Chetan Pandit [2]

Source: Current Science [3]

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991

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