Maldives isn’t the only flat-lined nation under threat of the sea level rise، several other coastal-cities face the same impending threat of sea level rise tied to global warming.
According to an article posted in NBC News، the low-lying nations and cities pose threat upon themselves with excessive ground water pumping that causes these coastal lined areas to sink. Roughly 150 million live within the 3.3feet high-tide mark. Experts and scientists warn of worst case scenario with the sea level rising to six feet by the end of this century considering the current rate of ice sleet melting at the polar points of the world.
“The thing about the subsidence is that it is localized، but where it happens it is bad، It can be a foot or more a year، which is a lot.” Jay Famiglietti، hyrdologist and ground water expert affliated with the University of California، Irvine and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena told in interview with NBC News.
Areas like Bangkok and Thailand have gone down three feet since the mid 1970s، where as other nations like India، Bangladesh and China face the same consequences  on their coastal regions given the rapid population growth and the correlated sinking of such areas.
“In China there is a huge amount of new (construction) on reclaimed coastal land that’s within perhaps three meters (10 feet) of sea level، so the cities، of course، are under big threat from storm flood events،” glaciologist John Moore، at Beijing Normal University stated in an interview.
The recent warning comes from the insurer of Lloyd’s Of London، pointing to Jakarta and Indonesia as the world’s fastest sinking megacities with parts of the aformentioned cities subsiding beyond 12 feet in the last 35 years.