In recent years, floods are becoming more and more precarious in their timings and intensities, wreaking havoc on the humanity. Men should bear a major share of blame for disrupting the natural cycle of hydrological flow. Pursuance of unhesitant deforestation and non-adherences to the age-old practices of water conservation has resulted in minimal retention of water at places of rain-fall, causing a sudden deluge in down-slope areas of catchments. Not only this, frequent phenomena of drought consequent to floods are clear manifestations of the impaired ground water recharge capacity.
Thus, afforestation and integrated watershed management, with active people participation, rather than going for big dams, should be preferred as the solution for tackling the twin problems of floods and droughts.
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