Raging element in different countries
Without water life on our planet impossible, but the water element more and more often brings destruction and suffering, as occurred recently in India, Pakistan, China and Thailand. Earlier this week Nesat Typhoon struck the Philippines, moving to southern China. As reported recently, global Agency to assist Oxfam in Pakistan is now more than five million people suffer from the effects of the recent flooding. But long-suffering Pakistan has still not recovered from massive flooding in 2010.
(36 photos)
1. The boy looks at the turbulent water released from the banks of the river Daya near the village of Pipli, 25 km from the Indian city of Bhubaneswar. The critical situation in Orissa was further complicated when the water broke through the dam Hirakud. In 11 districts of the state declared a state of emergency. (Biswaranjan Rout/Associated Press)
2. The soldiers dumped the refugees, the sacks of rice and sugar during floods in district badin, Pakistan Sindh province. In this province, floods killed more than 220 people, destroyed about 665 million homes, and left homeless and 1.8 million people. From flooding also affected the neighboring province Baluchistan. (Muhammed Muheisen/Associated Press)
3. Residents carry a pig through a flooded street during Typhoon Nesat in San MATEO, rizal, East of Manila, Philippines. Typhoon Nesat unleashed on the capital of the Philippines torrents of water flooded the large farm, and strong wind tore roofs off houses in the coastal cities. (Noel Celis/AFP/Getty Images)
4. Flooded highway to the North of Bangkok in Saraburi. Floods continue in southern part of Thailand. Five people died as a result of a house collapse which washed away the Foundation. (Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)
5. Giant waves breaking on the breakwater in Udon in the port town of kikho, province of mie, Japan. A powerful Typhoon struck the victim from tsunami North-Eastern coast of Japan, closer to the destroyed nuclear power plant. The authorities were forced to begin preparations for a massive evacuation in the region, where more than a million people.
6. Filipino with her son in the town of Tanza in the flood waters after Typhoon Nesat, which is local in this region is called Pedring,. Nesat Typhoon went through the Philippines, leaving seven deaths, flooded pastures, chaos on the roads and broken power lines. (Reuters)
7. People clean the mud after the withdrawal of flood waters in the district Cuisine, Sichuan province. In the floods last Friday, 13 people were killed, 18 were missing, and the total number of victims from the disaster amounted to 1,320 million. (ChinaFotoPress/Getty Images)
8. The family is trying to shelter from the rain under a rag in the camp for flood victims in badin district, Pakistan. This year since the end of August the floods have destroyed or flooded 1.2 million homes and 4.5 million acres of land. More than 300 thousand people were left homeless, 200 were killed. (Akhtar Soomro/Reuters)
9. Rescue workers and volunteers seeking the body of a fourth victim of the disaster in Baguio, Philippines, once a city dump avalanche debris after the Typhoon Nanmadol. As a result of the Typhoon killed 16 people, and the number threatens to grow, as hope of finding survivors fall. (AFP/AFP/Getty Images)
10. A pile of cars after the passage of Typhoon Talas, which caused flooding in nachikatsuura, Wakayama Prefecture, in Western Japan. Typhoon Talas passed through Western Japan, on 3 September, after which 31 people died and another 50 were missing. (Jiji Press/AFP/Getty Images)
11. A food merchant gives change to the customer on a flooded street in the town of Sena, Ayutthaya province, Thailand. In the result of a week of heavy rains occurred flooding and landslides, which killed 84 people. (Sukree Sukplang/Reuters)
12. Pakistanis save things in the flooded district Umerkot. UN helps Pakistan, where the floods killed 270 people, injured another 5.5 million and destroyed 1.1 million homes. (AFP/Getty Images)
13. The boy on the balcony of the house after the flood in Guangan, Sichuan province, China. (AFP/Getty Images)
14. Rescuers evacuate flood victims in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. Hundreds of thousands of people in Japan were encouraged to leave their homes after warnings of possible flooding. (Jiji Press/AFP/Getty Images)
15. A doctor helping a Pakistani child in a hospital in Tando Allahyar, Sindh province. About two million Pakistanis became ill after southern region of the country was flooded. More than 350 people were killed and more than eight million affected by floods this year. (Rizwan Tabassum/AFP/Getty Images)
16. A resident of the village with the bike on a flooded street near Megha village, 34 km from Bhubaneshwar, India. (Biswaranjan Rout/Associated Press)
17. Pakistani refugees erase things on a flooded field in Mirpur Khas, Sindh province. (Muhammed Muheisen/Associated Press)
18. Residents evacuated from flooded areas of the city Guanlan. As reported by the meteorological service September 19, heavy rains, which killed 14 people, will continue in the region for a few days. (Associated Press)
19. Policemen and residents run away from huge waves broke through the barrier on the waterfront of Qiantang river in Haining. (China Daily/Reuters)
20. Indians transporting cattle by boat in Casemurate, near Danapur DIARA in Patna, India. As a result of the heavy rains destroyed homes and flooded plains of North and Eastern India. (Aftab Alam Siddiqui/Associated Press)
21. Partially submerged highway in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, after hurricane Lee. (Mel Evans/Associated Press)
22. Girls go through a flooded area in Mandeville, Louisiana near lake Pontchartrain after hurricane Lee. Hurricane for a few hours loomed over the Gulf of Mexico. Slowly moving North, he became the reason of flooding of the coastal part of the state. (Ted Jackson/The Associated Press/The Times-Picayune)
23. Tom Harris hugs James Aaron, who saw his house after the flood in plains, Pennsylvania. The water level stayed just above its roof, resulting in a collapsed part of the ceiling and back and front porch. Tens of thousands of evacuated residents were allowed to return to their homes after the region was hurricane Lee caused navadanya. (Aimee Dilger/The Associated Press)
24. Board of construction company "Your Building Center" in the street Ninth East Street in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, where on 9 September came from the banks of the Susquehanna river. (Jimmy May/Assocaited Press)
25. Cecil Fleming tries to keep the wheelchair in the water in the city of Mandeville. (Ted Jackson/The Associated Press/The Times-Picayune)
26. Pakistanis sit on the ruins of a house surrounded by flood water in badin district near Hyderabad. The floods killed 200 people, more than 200 thousand were left homeless, flooded vast areas of pasture and arable land. (Shakil Adil/Associated Press)
27. The boy is a refugee under a mosquito net in the camp for flood victims in Tando Allah Yar on September 20. Flood victims camped out near inundated fields and crowded hospitals. Humanitarian agencies and organizations worldwide are trying to help Pakistan, which is again in trouble after devastating floods last year. (Muhammed Muheisen/Associated Press)
28. The victim of the floods the farmer dry chilies in Hyderabad on September 23. (Pervez Masih/Associated Press)
29. Pakistani boy on the narrow dry land surrounded by flood waters. The picture was taken in the district badin, Sindh province, Pakistan. Muhammed Muheisen/Associated Press)
30. A man with a tank of gas is leaving his flooded house in San Manteo, rizal, East of Manila. (Cheryl Ravelo/Reuters)
31. A girl-a refugee is balancing on a tree trunk in the water near her house in district badin. In the recent floods killed 230 people, was povrezhdenii destroyed more than 1.2 million houses, damaged agricultural land. More than 300 thousand people moved to refugee camps. With about 800 thousand families affected by last year's floods are still living in temporary camps. Humanitarian organizations warn about the risk of outbreaks of deadly diseases. (Akhtar Soomro/Reuters)
32. Residents of the area near the flooded river, in Navotas, North of Manila. (Aaron Favila/Associated Press)
33. A man carrying a potted plant on a flooded street in the province of Yang Tong, 100 km North of Bangkok. Since July in Thailand, floods killed 92 people. (Sukree Sukplang/Reuters)
34. A man washes in Ayutthaya province. As a result of floods, landslides and rains in Thailand have killed 112 people. (Sukree Sukplang/Reuters)
35. Fishermen on the site of the washed ashore a cargo ship in the port city Navotas the Philippines after the recent Typhoon here Nest. As a result of the Typhoon in the city killed 22-year-old, and were missing four people. (Romeo Ranoco/Reuters)
36. Indian girl sleeping in his hut in the village of Pahang, district Jaipur, Orissa. (Biswaranjan Rout/Associated Press)
Keywords: India | China | Rainstorms | Flooding | Pakistan | Thailand | Hurricane