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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"I have been living here for more than ten years. The embankment collapse caused by Amphan destroyed my whole house. Though we rebuilt it in the same location, we still feel fear when we hear cyclone ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The district administration has been constructing embankments and revetments amid its flood protection efforts in three vulnerable villages — Sasrali, Talwandi Naubad, and Dulewal — located near 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, ...

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 ...