Future Outlook

In the future, it is expected that more will die and the river will get bigger. At the same time the region will recieve better soil deposits for the country's crops.

They are trying to build barriers and prepare people with trucks, troops, and easy to rebuild houses. But the government has poor communication with this region due to the rough terrain.

This is a link to a recent news article on how the government is trying to control the flooding with ice bombing.

http://english.sina.com/china/p/2010/0322/310213.html

3 Concerns

The primary concerns related to the Huang He flooding are:

1. Devastating loss of life
2. Excessive destruction causing 21 million dollars in damage in 2000 alone
3. Agriculture is declining in this province because farmers are afraid of losing loved ones in this region.

China's Sorrow

When the Huang He river(Yellow river) floods it kills and destroys everything in its path. It is a very treacherous path because of the dangerous predators as well as the rushing water with hills on both sides.

Future (Yellow River)

It is unknown how the future would be in Huang He, because the Chinese government is making sure that the Yellow River doesn't rise to a higher level. No one can stop a river from rising but they can stabilize it like to make another route where it goes back to the ocean ! They are also creating a dam to stop the flooding

Impact In (Huang He) Yellow River

Due to its heavy load of silt the Yellow River is a depositing stream, that is, it deposits part of its carried burden of soil in its bed in stretches where it is flowing slowly. Should a flood occur, the river may break out of the levees into the surrounding lower flood plain and adopt a new course.

big picture

The big picture is that the flooding kills and destroys everything but brings the best soil to use for crops.

Backround

The Yellow River or the original China River Huang He. is the second-longest river in China (after the Yangtze River). The Huang He is the sixth-longest in the world. Chinese people are scare because they don't want to lose houses, farms, and family. The river gets its yellow color mostly from the fine-grained calcareous silts which originate in the Loess Plateau and are carried in the flow. Centuries of silt deposition and diking has caused the river to flow above the surrounding farmland, making flooding a critically dangerous problem. Flooding of the Yellow River has caused some of the highest death tolls in world history, with the 1887 Huang He flood killing 900,000 to 2,000,000 and the 1931 Huang He flood killing an estimated 1,000,000 to 4,000,000 on the North China Plain. But the good side is that after it floods it brings the best soil.