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What are the impacts of floods on the environment?

      

What are the impacts of floods on the environment?

  

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Ruth
1. Floods cause the spread of many epidemic diseases.
2. Rapid runoff causes soil erosion.
3. Wildlife habitat and forests are often destroyed.
4. Manmade structures like buildings, bridges, roads, sewer lines, power lines, etc. are
damaged.
5. Floods cause widespread damage to the standing crops and degrade the agricultural
land.
6. Flood affected areas are faced with acute shortage of food and drinking water.
NatalieR answered the question on June 7, 2022 at 13:16


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