{"id":137817,"date":"2021-09-28T19:42:16","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T14:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=137817"},"modified":"2021-10-01T19:00:17","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T13:30:17","slug":"high-water-on-growing-challenge-from-tropical-cyclones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/high-water-on-growing-challenge-from-tropical-cyclones\/","title":{"rendered":"High water: on growing challenge from tropical cyclones\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\"><strong>Synopsis<\/strong>: Tropical cyclones laden with moisture and accumulated energy pose a growing challenge, as they have the propensity to inflict heavy damage to lives and property. The welcome concern for public health and economic security must lead to stronger institutional responses to natural disasters too.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Why cyclonic storms over northern Indian Ocean have a severe destructive impact?<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The northern Indian Ocean\u00a0experiences only a minority of tropical storms annually. But their destructive impact on the subcontinent is severe. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">It is\u00a0due to a\u00a0<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">dense population and poor capacity to absorb large quantities of rainfall dumped in a short period over cities and towns.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Also, <strong>financial arrangements<\/strong> to insure the population against material losses also <strong>remain weak.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">What steps need to be taken to mitigate adverse impact of such disasters?<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>Research evidence shows more cyclones forming over the Arabian Sea when compared to the Bay of Bengal.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, the Centre and all States <strong>cannot afford to allow large-scale losses to communities to continue<\/strong> each year.<\/p>\n<p>Going beyond disaster response, <strong>institutional structures and insurance systems<\/strong> for financial protection, must be put in place.<\/p>\n<p>Cities must prepare to <strong>harvest every flood<\/strong> that brings vast quantities of water, so vital to sustain mass populations.<\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Source:<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0This post is based on the article &#8220;<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">High water: on growing challenge from tropical cyclones<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0&#8221;\u00a0published in <strong>The Hindu<\/strong> on <strong>28th Sep 2021<\/strong>.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Synopsis: Tropical cyclones laden with moisture and accumulated energy pose a growing challenge, as they have the propensity to inflict heavy damage to lives and property. The welcome concern for public health and economic security must lead to stronger institutional responses to natural disasters too. Why cyclonic storms over northern Indian Ocean have a severe&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/high-water-on-growing-challenge-from-tropical-cyclones\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">High water: on growing challenge from tropical cyclones\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10328,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[8814,10051,216,3085],"class_list":["post-137817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-changes-in-critical-geographical-features","tag-climatology","tag-gs-paper-3","tag-tropical-cyclones","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10328"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}