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 'NORTH EAST FLOOD RESPONSE 2018: ASSAM IS AT A MAJOR RISK'  ''This situation becomes so worse for the people of Assam they have lost everything: HOMES,THERE LOVED ONES AND LIVELIHOOD. One lakh of people have suffered from the flood.High level of water has destroyed crops, leaving families with an unclear future and are in desperate need of help. Rivers Karakhal in Hailakandi, Kushiyara at Karimganj, Barak at Chachar, Dhanshiri in Golaghat is flowing over the danger level. Nearly 60 animals, mostly deer and wild boars, perished in the floods. The flood-affected 15 districts of Assam state that includes Lakhimpur, Jorhat, Golaghat, Sivasagar, Cachar, Dhemaji, Karimganj, Sonitpur, Hojai, Biswanath, Majuli, Barpeta, Chirang, Nagaon and Nalbari.Over 70% to 80% of people have suffered from this situation and the manipur suffer from WATER-BORNE DISEASES.'' The similarity is a network of dams in the “control of other States” surrounding both the States--- in the Northeast. worst flood in 100 years that has claimed 357 lives so far. dam in Nagaland,” Partha Jyoti Das, a water resources specialist, told The Hindu.
 * Flood-experienced’ Assam can learn a lesson from the Kerala deluge to avoid large-scale disaster, say water resources and ecology experts
 * The experts have found a similar pattern to recurrent floods in Assam – up to four times a year between April and October – and Kerala’s
 * The most worrying similarity is a network of dams in the “control of other States” surrounding Kerala and Assam.
 * We have had Kerala-like floods albeit on a smaller scale because of hydropower projects in neighbouring States and in adjoining Bhutan. Assam has        been rain-deficient by 30% this year, but Golaghat district experienced flash flood due to the release of excess water by the Doyang