Floods in Southern Indian States

People have lost clothes and other assets (both utensils and clothes) because of the floods. There is slush and many houses are knee deep in mud and waste material. Sewage from open drains and overflowing septic tanks have increased public health risks especially in the urban areas. People are now defecating in the open in both urban and rural areas.

In Bagalkot too, all water bodies are contaminated, not clean and not safe for consumption. The rural water supply pipelines are damaged in almost all the affected villages leading to further clean water crisis. All the food stocks available with the affected families are spoiled with flood water; people are not left with the commodities for consumption and are purely depending on the food packets distributed by government and other agencies.