EX-POSTE IMPACTS OF FLOOD ON SOCIOECONOMICS CONDITIONS OF LOCAL POPULATION IN DISTRICT KHAIRPUR MIR’S, PAKISTAN

Abstract

This research evaluates the impact of floods on the socioeconomic conditions and environmental well-being of the local population in District Khairpur Mir’s, Sindh, Pakistan. For this research secondary data was collected through landset satellite 8and9 from USGS (United States Geographic Service). Coordinate system’s WGS 1984 location zone of Pakistan is WG 42. The remote sensing data was downloaded of district Khairpur Mir’s, Tehsil Sobhodero for the period of 2021-22. Data was analyzed according to Arc GIS software, the results indicate that the health department of Sindh reported a staggering 10,790,000 cases of disease among the local population
during the flood. In addition, the flood had a severe impact on crops in the Khairpur district, affecting 130,000 acres of farmland. Furthermore, the flood left 20,900 people homeless in the study area. The flood has highly hit and damaged many villages’ roads and agriculture lands. Therefore, the metrology department should take action for pre disaster information dissemination; where the public health engineering department should improve the derange systems while delisting effluent canals prior to floods. 
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