Ashik Miah, a 45-year-old farmer of Jaladhartupi village, was staring helplessly at his inundated paddy field as he sat beside Dekhar Haor at Dakshin Sunamganj upazila. “I cultivated Boro on around ...
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 ...
Every year, farmers in the haor wait anxiously for the harvest season. A flash of lightning in the sky or a cover of dark ...
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 ...
In the Sundarbans, locals are caught between receding shorelines and delayed embankment construction
Thirty-five-year-old Ramaprasad Maiti, a resident of a Sundarbans island, has moved houses 17 times in his lifetime as erosion tore them down and washed them into the river one by one. On Ghoramara ...
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 report prepared by a civil society-based fact-finding team on the flooding in north Bihar has asserted that the embankments along the Kosi river have been the chief cause of misery. NEW DELHI: A ...
Localities in the Mekong Delta have asked for VND8.14 trillion ($352 million) in government funds to build dikes at 76 erosion hotspots. The proposed embankments will stretch a total 140 km (87 miles) ...
Residents of at least three riverside villages in South 24-Parganas’s Gosaba on Saturday took out a march with posters demanding concrete embankments, instead of relief material which, according 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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