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Although man has been responding to floods since historical times, scientists, planners and politicians are still not fully understood the floods. Still more, this is true of the general public, for whom floods are an unexpected, often inexplicable and always traumatic experience. Floods have been a very important natural hazard for the human beings especially in the tropical countries. The complex system of monsoon winds, orientation of mountains and erratic path of the cyclones lead to a wide variability of rainfall with scarcity of water in some areas leads to drought situations whereas abundance of water with heavy downpour in some other areas leads to flooding.

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