New Delhi, Sept. 10 -- Punjab has recently suffered some of the worst floods in its recent history. These floods were not the first and may not be the last either.

Down To Earth (DTE) went through documents including an in-depth study that analysed the causes of floods in Punjab in the last two decades. DTE also went through a Flood Preparedness Guidebook 2024 released by the Punjab government last year.

An analysis of both documents revealed that the problem of floods in Punjab is not only due to natural reasons but also serious mismanagement.

Two decades of floods Temporal Analysis of Floods in Punjab (1990-2010) was published in the International Journal of Research and Analytical Reviews. The paper studied the floods in the state f...