Floods in Asia
The Jhelum Valley received unparalleled rains during September 2014. However, the inconvenient fact remains that the Kashmir flood disaster was notably exacerbated by human interventions in the river basin, reports…
Higher temperatures during the last fews days of March, and then again from 06 April, have increased the melting of snow and caused widespread flooding in central and eastern Kazakhstan…
In a joint study, two Dutch organisations, Deltares and Floodtags, have developed a way to derive real-time flood maps using a combination of flood modelling and data mining from social…
In autumn 2013, several parts of Cambodia were severely affected by flooding, leaving many rural water supplies unusable and unsanitary. Unclean water and lack of sanitation and hygiene are among…
Plans have been announced to create new reservoirs to control flooding in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The work is expected to start later this year with the pilot project,…
The state government of Indian controlled Jammu and Kashmir issued some official figures for the recent floods and landslides that hit the state in late March this year. Revenue Minister…
Local and international news agencies are reporting that floods in the northern province of Baghlan, Afghanistan, have left at least 5 people dead, with some local reports saying the figure…
State media have reported that heavy rainfall has caused floods in south central and eastern parts of China that have forced at least 12,000 people to evacuate their homes and…
Over 70 people have been injured – 21 of them seriously – by a rainstorm and subsequent floods in north-west Iran. According to IRNA, the state sponsored news agency in…
Levels of the Jhelum river and several of its tributaries in Kashmir, India, have risen sharply after 48 hours of incessant rain. SRINAGAR, Indian-Held Kashmir (AA) – Landslides and flooding…
Kashmiris fear another disaster, only 6 months after region saw the worst floods in a century. SRINAGAR, Indian-held Kashmir (AA) – Landslides and flooding caused by heavy rains have raised…
Floods in 3 provinces of central Vietnam have left 3 people dead. Two victims died in floods in Quang Ngai and one in neighbouring Quang Nam province. Thua Thien-Hue province…
A landslide has buried 11 houses near southern foothills of Mount Gede, Indonesia, after heavy rainfall. JAKARTA, Indonesia (AA) – Rescue teams recovered Sunday the bodies of 12 people after…
Flash floods in several parts of Saudi Arabia over the last 4 days have killed at least 11 people. According to Saudi’s Civil Defence General Directorate figures quoted in local…
An embankment on the Kholpetua River has in south-west Bangladesh, leaving 16 villages under water and 2,000 families marooned. The collapsed occurred during the evening of Sunday 22 March 2015,…
BNPD, the disaster management agency in Indonesia, said yesterday that an embankment on the Cimanuk river had been breached, forcing around 4,000 people from their homes. The embankment failure occurred…
