Flood In Pakistan In 2010 | 2010 Flood History By Premiere Urgence

2010 FLOOD ATTACK IN PAKISTAN
The 2010 Pakistan floods began in late July 2010 following heavy monsoon
rains in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Sindh, Punjab and Balochistan regions of
Pakistan and affected the
Indus River basin. At one point, approximately one-fifth of Pakistan's
total land area was underwater.According to Pakistani government
data the floods directly affected about 20 million people, mostly by
destruction of property, livelihood and infrastructure, with a death toll
of close to 2,000.The number of individuals affected by the flooding
exceeds the combined total of individuals affected by the 2004 Indian Ocean
tsunami, the 2005 Kashmir earthquake and the 2010 Haiti earthquake.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon had initially asked for $460 million for
emergency relief, noting that the flood was the worst disaster he had ever
seen. Only 20% of the relief funds requested had been received as of 15 August
2010.The U.N. had been concerned that aid was not arriving fast enough,
and the World Health Organization reported that ten million people were forced
to drink unsafe water.The Pakistani economy has been harmed by extensive
damage to infrastructure and crops.Structural damages have been estimated
to exceed 4 billion USD, and wheat crop damages have been estimated to be over
500 million USD.Officials have estimated the total economic impact to be
as much as 43 billion USD.