Global Flooding Issues, 2024: A Review

Flooding is an natural disaster, which occurs when normally dry land become submerged due to excess water from heavy rainfall, river overflow, storm surges, or rapid snowmelt. This may take place for socio-economic and flooding events catastrophic affect by natural environment. Based on the above approaches, in the present investigation mainly focus on global flooding issues during 2024 occurred due to the environmental changes. The South East Asian nations like, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and China are notable monsoon flooding occurred in current year. In India, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, North Indian states including parts of Assam experienced severe flooding due to the annual monsoon rains led to swollen rivers such as the Ganges and Brahmaputra, causing widespread flooding, particularly in low-lying regions. Pakistan provinces like Sindh and Punjab faced widespread flooding as heavy rains and river overflow submerged communities. China experienced widespread flooding due to unusually heavy monsoon rains. Regions such as Hunan, Guangxi, and Guangdong saw river overflow including the Yangtze and Pearl. Whereas, monsoon floods affected approximately 4 million people in Bangladesh, causing significant damage to homes and crops. Many European countries always affected by flood, the Russia and Kazakhstan which is collapse a dam and several river system near Orsk before entering in Caspian sea. Germany affected by flood during June, causing sudden rising of flood water in the Danubar-river around 6.86 meters. European parliamentary election 2024 which was significantly disturbed by flooding occasion in province of Styria. In Nigeria, significant flooding along with the Benue and Niger river due to above-average rainfall. Current issues of flooding events occurred in across the globe have been widespread and intense, affecting millions of people, destroying infrastructure, devastating for crop-producing regions, significant economic losses and exacerbating humanitarian crises.