After weeks of utmost monsoon rains, Pakistan’s largest freshwater lake began overflowing in early September, placing tens of hundreds of individuals vulnerable to shedding their properties, new satellite photographs reveal.Â
The photographs, captured by NASA’s Landsat 8 and Landsat 9 satellites, present breaches within the banks of Lake Manchar, a few of which have been made deliberately by native authorities to stop the overfilled lake from spilling into densely populated areas within the Indus River Valley.
The photographs present the pre-flood scenario on July 25 after which element the rising extent of the flooding on Aug. 28 and Sept. 5.
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Some 100,000 individuals residing in a number of hundred villages scattered throughout the valley are vulnerable to flooding as a result of breaches, NASA officers wrote in a statement (opens in new tab). The floods, described as Pakistan’s worst in no less than a decade, have killed greater than 1,300 individuals and injured hundreds extra. Over 1 million properties have been destroyed and a whole lot of hundreds of persons are presently displaced. Â
Pakistan’s Sindh province, the place Lake Manchar is situated, is among the most severely affected by the flooding. The world has already acquired 5 occasions its common annual rainfall this yr, NASA mentioned within the assertion. Extra rain is probably going within the coming days, based on the U.Ok. climate forecaster Met Office.Â
The federal government of Pakistan declared a nationwide emergency on Aug. 30, asking for worldwide help to ship meals, ingesting water and well being provides and help to the affected communities.Â
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