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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Water started leaking from a small hole in the embankment of the Dwarakeshwar river in Khanakul, Hooghly, quickly eroding a 200-metre stretch of the earthen structure within just a few hours. A local ...

Commissioner Peshawar has ordered construction of embankments, bridges damaged in the last year floods. On Wednesday he issued orders for the immediate removal of encroachment from the banks of rivers ...

This research area focuses on the integration of geosynthetic reinforcement with pile-supported embankments to address the challenges of constructing stable infrastructures over soft soils. The use of ...

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 ...

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 ...