- 1 dead
- 250,000 people and millions of farm animals evacuated
- 1,550 kmē farmland flooded
- City centre of Cologne flooded to a depth of 2 metres
- Hundreds of homes inundated
- Flood tourism
- Looting
- Social disturbance and mental stress
- Effects on cattle health
- Extra costs of feeding cattle
- Dutch government paid billions of euros in compensation to those affected -
a huge strain on the econoomy
- Fertile silt deposited on floodplain, but also some toxic mud
- Water supplies polluted
- The Germans and Dutch had time to react and take preventative measures
River Rhine Floods 1995 |
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