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 ...

While we need some time to understand the extent of damage Cyclone Sitrang has caused, I assume that the overall damage would be much less than previous such calamities. I have learnt from the ...

With a driving vision of building tomorrow, a collection of excavators are helping to protect the Sundarbans, a historic region between India and Bangladesh, from the threat of flooding. In Bengali, ...

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 ...

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 ...

CHANDIGARH: Describing the flood situation in Punjab as a “deluge”, Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said illegal mining had weakened embankments and contributed to the disaster, ...

New earth embankments have been built to protect the village from flooding The Environment Agency has installed new earth embankments to reduce the risk of flooding in the Cornish village of Calstock.

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 ...

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 ...

Once again, Assam is ravaged by floods, which seem to have become an annual ritual for the millions living in this northeastern corner of the country. According to government estimates, the current ...

Pakistan, July 21 -- Sindh Irrigation Minister Jam Khan Shoro and Secretary Irrigation Zarif Iqbal Khero visited the Indus River in the Bhanot area of Matiari district. On this occasion, Chief ...