Heber City is rethinking an update to its stormwater master plan for the North Village area after discovering planned embankments may pose a risk to human life during a severe and improbable flood.

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 ...

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.

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, ...

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, ...

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 ...