TITLE:
Cameroonian Urban Floodwater Retaliations on Human Activity and Infrastructural Developments in Channel Flood Ways of Kumba
AUTHORS:
Zephania N. Fogwe, Emilia Ngum Asue
KEYWORDS:
Garbage, Floods, Kumba, Population, Stream Channel
JOURNAL NAME:
Current Urban Studies,
Vol.4 No.1,
March
28,
2016
ABSTRACT: In Cameroonian cities, floods from solid pollutant barriers constitute environmental hazards of
new distinct dimension, nature and characteristics. This study examines geographical settings
provoking floods in cities and the way it affects the population. It suggests appropriate policy mitigation
options. Primary and secondary data collected through fieldwork and documentary
sources were treated. Findings show that national and local rules and legislation are weakly applied
exposing urban natural floodway to varied forms of human colonisation activities. These
urban stream flood ways that ought to be downstream water evacuation role players reversed into
inhabited neighbourhoods of diverted water. Human activities and infrastructural urban inputs
that unconsciously imposed directional dictates unto urban stream flow have become self-made
victims of wicked egocentrism over urban stream channels. As nature is permanently in a state of
dynamic re-equilibration the urban stream waters have in retaliation taught its trouble givers a
disproportionately unequal negative response in enormous fatalities for the humans who dare to
resist its floods and abandonment for those who have been repeatedly humbled by its floods. The
response from this no man’s land of aborted human conquest requires comprehensive and multidimensional
environmental management in stream-bordered urban built.