One million displaced by floods in India

Terra Daily via AFP: Devastating floods have forced more than one million people to flee their homes in northeastern India where authorities have called a health alert, officials said on Monday.

"So far 18 of 27 districts of Assam have been hit by floods with more than one million displaced and 11 people drowned in separate incidents in the past week," the Disaster Management agency said in a statement.

Rescue officials said around 2,000 villages have been hit by overflowing waters from the rain-swollen Brahmaputra river...

The Brahmaputra River viewed from the SPOT satellite.  One glance and you can see how vulnerable the area is to flooding.  Wikimedia Commons, under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license