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Hello, I'm James Reynolds on the BBC World Service and this is BBC Earth Conversations

floods in Pakistan.

With one third of the country underwater, people share what it's like on the ground.

Plus we hear from a woman who's fundraising in the UK for those affected by the floods

along with her great uncle who's coordinating help in Pakistan and with homes and livelihoods

destroyed the future looks grim.

All the crops vanish, all the cotton crop is vanished.

I don't think we can easily carry the wheat crop in November.

It's been called a monsoon on steroids by the UN Chief after record breaking rainfall

and floods destroyed over a million homes with buildings, crops and vital infrastructure

damaged, destroyed or submerged.

It's affecting an estimated 33 million Pakistanis that's one in seven of the population.

Official figures say that more than a thousand people have been killed over the past months

but the true toll is as yet unknown, it's expected to be higher.

The United Nations has announced an emergency plan.

The World Health Organization is releasing money to support health facilities and prevent

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