Flood In Malaysia 2017 Statistics

In malaysia as shown in figure 1 where the green shaded indicates the flood prone areas extracted from department of drainage and irrigation did for the peninsular malaysia.

Flood in malaysia 2017 statistics. 03 8885 7000 fax. The compilation of the statistics includes environmental conditions impacts of human activities on the environment and actions taken to minimise the impact. Department of statistics malaysia block c6 complex c federal government administrative centre 62514 putrajaya tel. 26 jalan tun hussein presint 4 62100 w p.

Flood is the most devastating natural disaster experienced in malaysia is flood. The compendium of environment statistics ces malaysia 2018 presents statistics on environment for the period 2013 2017 2018 namely air water land and population. Picture by mukhriz hazim. Workers dredge garbage and silt from a storm drain near the pasar seni lrt station following flash floods last week.

It was malaysia s worst flooding in decades forcing more than 100 000 people to flee. Ministry of transport malaysia no. In 2016 the state with the most floods was selangor with 30 incidents. Floods in south asia have killed more than 1 000 people this summer.

Kuala lumpur april 4 poor maintenance of drains and irrigation canals has reduced the flow carrying capacity of the city s drainage system triggering flash floods during thunderstorms. An aerial view of houses and plantations submerged in floodwaters in malaysia in 2017. There are two basic types of flood occur in malaysia which are flash flood and monsoonal flood. In 2017 26 out of the 47 recorded floods in malaysia happened in kelantan while more than half of it 14 incidents were linked to the kelantan river.

Throughout malaysia including sabah and sarawak there is total of 189 river basins 89 of the river basins are in. Nevertheless floods can happen anytime anywhere. Flood insurance loss statistics jan 1 1978 through sep 30 2001. The two way for the past several weeks monsoon triggered floods have devastated regions in nepal bangladesh and india.