ANATOMY OF GLACIAL LAKE OUTBURST FLOODS, A HUGE CHALLENGE FOR EARLY WARNING SYSTEM, WHERE THERE IS NO NETWORK CONNECTIVITY

Himachal pradesh has identified 67 vulnerable glacial lakes, including several located in remote and high altitude areas and is working towards establishing early warning systems for four of the most vulnerable lakes in Kinnaur and Lahaul Spiti where the state is monitoring the identified lakes through satellite imagery and other scientific data to detect changes that could increase the risk of glacial lake outburst floods , while technical solutions are being explored to install sensors and transmit real time information from locations where conventional communication net works are unavailable. Identification of large number of vulnerable glacial lakes was a matter of concern, particularly as recent Himalayan disasters have demonstrated that such major incidents can develop without conversational warning indicators, such as intense rainfall, even snow melting glaciers and it is difficult to predict such events solely on the basis of rainfall forecasts. As such continues monitoring of the situated inaccessible terrains found necessary for the effective steps, establishing early warning system for vulnerable glacial lakes with required efforts focused on the captioned subject matter deliberation where strengthening early warning capabilities of the proposed system are intended to detect on the basis of changes in the lake conditions and communicate warnings to authorities and the downstream populations. Installation of such systems at high altitude locations remained a major technological challenge where the early warning system is a technical challenge the problem is that these locations ara in very remote areas, where there is no network connectivity, where will be sensors installed and how will the data be transferred, these are the major challenges and the state is working with the Centre for development of advanced Computing to develop technological solutions for these challenges. Glacial lake outburst floods occur when water accumulated in or around a glacial lake is suddenly released, potentially sending large volumes of water downstream, and such events can cause flash floods, damage infrastructure and threaten settlements located along the downstream valleys:-- Er Fateh chand Guleria, Director RTI welfare Association registered number HPCD, 3552 , Bilaspur Himachal pradesh phone number, 9459334377.