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2. LITERATURE STUDY
2.1. Introduction -
India is a country with huge coastal areas and large flood-prone areas. Public faces difficulty due to the floods and loss of lives and property. In this case, the concept of construction of floating houses should be adopted in which the structures would rise during floods and subside down during hot and dry conditions. This will reduce the loss of life and property. Therefore, research and development of new techniques of design and construction should be done. Structures in the flood-prone areas can be constructed with such techniques. In coastal areas and shorelines, these structures will gain popularity sooner or later. In recent years there has been a growing focus on living with water due to the environmental issues such as depletion of land, rapid growth of human population, depletion of the energy sources, global warming and increasing water level. In fact in 2050, 90% of the major cities in the world are going to be dealing with rising seas. Higher temperatures are expected to raise sea level by Expanding ocean water, Melting mountain glaciers and small icecaps, Causing portions of the coastal section of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets to melt or slide into the ocean. Raising sea levels in India Sea level rise is due to climate change. The global sea level has been rising at an average of 1.8 mm every year over the last century, according to the fifth assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Ocean thermal expansion and melting ice near the earth’s poles, both attributed to human- caused global warming, have been the dominant contributors to global mean sea level rise since the 20th century, the report said. The rate of global mean sea level rise during the st century will exceed the rate observed during 1971-
2010,” the IPCC assessment said.

India expects sea level along its coast to rise by as much as 864 mm (2.8 ft) by the end of the century, according to a statement made by the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change in Parliament in December 2018. Citing studies by the Hyderabad-based Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services, the government said that the most vulnerable stretches along the western Indian coast are the low lying Khambat and Kutch regions in Gujarat, Mumbai - India s financial capital, and parts of the Konkan coast and southern Kerala.

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