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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

HYDERABAD, Aug 1 An official meeting held here on Sunday to asses preparations made by the irrigation department to meet a flood emergency expressed dissatisfaction that no work had been done on ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

IN the Vernon-Harcourt Lecture delivered at the Institution of Civil Engineers on December 8, Dr. Brysson Cunningham discussed “Estuary Channels and Embankments". The two chief objects of 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 ...