Constructing A Dream

Barrage of rows

FLOOD CONTROL GUIDELINE

Cyclonic disturbance threatens crops, population in Odisha

Hilly areas are likely to face landslides and damage to kutcha roads and houses

Simply Put: Boat-life, not lifeboat

The embankment war

CHINA

Major embankment repair works delayed in Bihar

Some of them awaiting nod of Ganga Flood Control Committee

Heavy flood and hailstorm in Jordan: One dead, teen missing

Atmospheric instability behind flash floods in the arid country 

Kerala lacks a flood warning system: Government official

Bangladesh damns Indian dam

A proposed Indian dam releases a flood of protests in Bangladesh

THAILAND

Appeal by NGOs

Plugging the breaches

Can the people of the Sundarbans find a viable solution to the problem of flooding?

BUENOS AIRES

Odisha’s Kandhamal evacuates people amid flood threat

Vamsadhara river at Kasinagar and the Baitarani at Rajghat breach danger levels

Run-up to COP27: Extreme weather events drive mass migration in Odisha’s Kendrapara, Jharkhand’s Palamu, says study

Social factors also played an important role in driving migration

Flood warnings that don’t break the banks

Global number of weather disasters has increased by five times over the last 50 years

Simply Put: Slothful climate adaptation

Reservoir levels rise after rains, but fail to cross normal storage mark in many states

At least 10 states still hold water below their normal storage levels

Lessons to be learnt from Chilika

Spawning grounds

Environmental changes have led to the emergence of kala-azar in new areas

Kosi flood again?

Heavy rains, flooding in north Italy claim 8 lives; thousands evacuated

An average of 200 mm of rainfall happened in the last 36 hours

What fuelled this year's flood fury in Pune?

Unplanned development and erratic weather majorly caused the deluge, find experts