NASA satellite photos show flood devastation in Kerala, India

Above: The number of deaths in Kerala in southern India rose to nearly 400 on Monday after the worst flood in the first century.

New satellite photos show catastrophic flooding in Kerala state in India

NASA's weekend photo shows how far the flood spread inland since the monsoon rain hit Kerala in August.

The first picture was taken on February 6, 2018 and the "post" picture was taken on August 22 after two weeks of rain. NASA says both maps show green vegetation and blue water

According to local media reports, water from the Karuvannur River flooded dozens of villages and washed 2 kilometers of land connecting the two national highways.

Rain also drowned Cochin International Airport and closed for two weeks. The airport is preparing to resume full operation at 2 PM. According to the statement on the website, the local time on Wednesday

When the worst flood in Kerala province occurred during the first century nearly 400 people were killed and 800 thousand people were forced to leave the house.

According to officials, Kerala's rainfall is 40% more than the monsoon season. Due to the rain, pressure was applied to dozens of dams in the area, and authorities were obliged to release some of the water they had.

According to Chandra Bhushan of the Science and Environment Center think-tank, due to rapid deforestation and unplanned development, Kerala is vulnerable to floods.

"Floods are inevitable," he told Reuters. "But the influence of Kerala is getting worse due to the influence of human beings, deficiencies in dam management, inadequacies in planning, deforestation, destruction of natural habitats."

Prime Minister Pinarleye Villany promised to build a "new Kerala" after the flood. He told the Indian Express that the focus lies in building a new building instead of building an old building.

Vijayan refuses to indicate whether he can avoid it whether he thinks that the disaster is artificial

"We did it to the utmost," he told the Indian Express last week. "Disasters are disasters, we have to face disasters, I will not make these controversies or participate."

Kerala lacks a flood forecasting system: Kerala is vulnerable to heavy rains and floods, but lacks an adequate flood forecasting system. The Central Water Commission (CWC), the only flood prediction institution in India, lacks information on flood conditions in Kerala. As local people have no room in advance for the situation, this makes the situation even worse. CWC has set up a flood monitoring site in the state, but some of it will not work. Excessive release of water from the dam: More than 20 dams released large amounts of water and exacerbated the situation when Kerala already dealt with serious floods. Why did not you free water before? What does the authorities do before the monsoon arrives in India?

The Kerala government insisted that the sudden outflow of water from the Mullaperiyar Dam by the Tamil Nadu government is one of the causes of Kerala's floods in the Supreme Court. The Tamil Nadu Government insisted that Kerala State was under the influence of floods because heavy rain in Kerala provoked excessive water discharge from the 80 reservoirs in Kerala State and that Idduckdam had flood surplus thinking. Although the emissions of the Mullaperiyar Dam were greatly reduced, due to the unprecedented heavy rain that caused flooding in the independent catchment