Impacts of Flooding and Storms on Lagos

 

Urbanization and industrialization has increased the number of streets and buildings. However, this increments the extent of the surface range where water cannot be retained into the ground, leading to a fast runoff which then causes flooding amid storms. And in cities that oversee their framework well, stormwater seepage frameworks are built so that water can be coordinated to waterways effectively and rapidly.

Family and community scales of impacts are mainly indicated by the auxiliary impacts of flooding in Lagos. Household impacts incorporate disintegration of building quality, the intrusion of contaminated water into apartments, need of good drinking water, and misfortune or harm to family properties including sanitation offices. The community impacts include an unclean environment, disturbance of movement, and harm to open utilities.

To improve the flooding situation Lagos would take both local and international intervention and I will require a total restructuring to how a lot of buildings are made in Nigeria.