Resilience building in flood-prone areas require capacity-building of the community so that people can anticipate, absorb, adapt, mitigate and transfer disaster risk Villagers try to repair a breached ...

The tragedy of floods in Bihar is an annual saga. This year, according to the eastern Indian state’s disaster management department, 1,333 villages in 16 districts were flooded, affecting a population ...

Leaders of the Haor Bachao Andolon, however, allege that only token soil dumping took place in a few projects on December 15, and that full-scale work has yet to begin. Meanwhile, even though ...

While dams and embankments are often touted as interventions for better flood management, they have often been at the root of more severe flood disasters. This is not the first flood disaster in the ...

IN the last week of August this year the flood protection embankment at Shariakandi of Bogra District failed. As a result several hundred villages in Bogra and Sirajganj were inundated with loss to ...

Homeless outreach workers have begun speaking with people living on Fresno freeways in an attempt to get them housed and off embankments in the start of Project Off-ramp, Mayor Jerry Dyer said. The ...

Life had come to a standstill in the Ganga-Brahmaputra floodplains where large tracts of land were reeling under floods. Everywhere there were submerged houses, broken bridges, and wasted railway ...

A study finds a combination of rising sea levels due to climate change and man-made flooding problems threaten Bangladesh Man-made flood protections, not climate change, are the main culprit in ...

At least 1.5 million residents of southern region are in danger as embankments in 158 points are damaged or cracked. Majority of the water resources of the country flows through the rivers of Barisal ...

Hundreds of people in Hanoi's Quoc Oai District reinforced embankments to prevent floods on Sunday, following two days of torrential downpours. At 5 a.m., floodwater from a forest in Hoa Binh Province ...

Commuters on Highway 41 likely noticed work on the first few feet of embankments in recent months, and Caltrans says there’s more to come. The winding pavement and rocks that stretch up from the ...