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Question
What type of difficulties are faced by people during floods?

Look at the picture, what kind of a school have the children come to after the flood? Write down what people had to do to make their life normal again after the flood.
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Solution
The following difficulties are faced by people during floods:
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Many people die.
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Many people get injured.
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Their houses and other valuables get destroyed.
- Their farms are destroyed.
- A lot of food items are destroyed.
- There is a scarcity of drinking water.
- Water-borne diseases are spread.
- The roadways and railways get, affected badly.
- Schools, hospitals, and other important public places get destructed.
It has been shown in the picture that after the floods, since the schools of the children have been destroyed, as a result of the, they have to study in a park or under a tree.
- People have to start from scratch to make their life normal.
- Cleaning the house and submerged goods is the first measure task after the flood water recedes.
- Many people may have to start an altogether new occupation to earn money.
- People have to rebuild their houses.
- They have to arrange for safer drinking water.
- The government has restored the rail and road network as quickly as possible.
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