The floods this year in effect threaten to be worse than the last, not least because the government did not bother to prepare for the inevitable. In the top pictures, the left-hand NASA satellite image of the flood is from September 11, 2009. The right-hand-image is from two days ago.
In the bottom satellite image, the areas and cities of the worst affected south of Pakistan are identified.
Seems we will be needing a ministry of neutral technocrats for the repair and upgrading or modification of infrastructure for all of Pakistan, especially the irrigation system as well as urban drainage systems. Maybe now municipalities and urbanites will learn the importance of having more drains (instead of building over them) and keeping them cleared and clean all the time.
But it may even mean a greener and more agriculturally-productive Pakistan in the long run. - NS
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