Becoming more frequent, more widespread and more intense.

• Becoming more frequent, more widespread and more intense.

• • There were 200 major floods worldwide in 2007 affecting 800 million people and costing more than 8000 lives and over 40 billion pounds worth of damage
  • England witnessed the wettest summer in 2007
  • 13 people died.

• Resulting in deaths, disease and injury due to drowning, lack of sanitation and safe drinking water and exposure to dangerous chemical contaminants

• • Floods and tropical cyclones have greatest impact in South Asia
  • and Latin America
  • Increased risk of diarrhoeal diseases, cholera, cryptosporidiosis,
  • campylobacter and typhoid fever.