A flash flood warning was issued by the US National Weather Service (NWS) on Saturday 8th February for Sonoma County in the San Francisco Area, California, as storm systems pelt…
Heavy rainfall and flooding has struck part of the Northwest Province of South Africa since Wednesday 5th February, causing several deaths and injuries, damaging roads and bridges, and cutting off…
Heavy rains of up to 225mm (9”) have caused flooding in the town of Kununurra in the northeast of Western Australia, with similar rainfall figures forecast over the next 24…
Severe flooding and landslides caused by torrential rains across Bolivia in recent weeks have raised the death toll since the start of the rainy season in October 2013 to 38…
As part of our series on flood tunnels around the world, our third installment looks at the tunnel on the Mediterranean island of Malta. Malta is the third-largest island in…
Zimbabwean authorities are evacuating hundreds of families from an area in Masvingo province, south of Harare, who are threatened by floodwaters and the possible collapse of the incomplete wall of…
Tropical Storm Kajiki, named “Basyang” by the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services (PAGAS), which struck the Philippines on Friday 31 January, was the second tropical storm to hit the…
Update: Guateng police have announced that a 52-year-old man was found dead in a stream between Doornkop and Emdeni in Soweto on Tuesday 4 February 2014. The man is believed…
As part of our series of articles on flood tunnels, below we take a look at the Metropolitan Area Outer Underground Discharge Channel, also known as the G-cans project, in…
Ecuador and Peru have seen continuous heavy rainfall over the last few days, causing severe flooding and landslides. Ecuador Heavy downpours during the night of 20 January 2014 flooded several…
Flood tunnels are a component of a flood management system usually found in built-up urban areas where there is no space for surface canals or stormwater channels. A flood tunnel…
Tropical Depression Agaton, known elsewhere as Ling-ling, was downgraded on Monday to a Low Pressure Area (LPA) as it weakened, but the Philipppine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA)…
Widespread flooding continues to affect Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, over the weekend, with the number of people forced to leave their homes jumping from less than 5,000 on Saturday…
The Low Pressure Area moving over southern Mindanao that brought heavy rainfall on 11-12 January has also affected the southern Visayas, raising concerns about people affected by Typhoon HAIYAN in…
Incessant heavy downpours caused flooding in numerous locations across Jakarta on Wednesday 8 January 2014, causing gridlock in many parts of the city and disrupting several commuter train schedules. The…
Heavy rainfall in Bolivia over Christmas 2013 caused 29 deaths and affected 3 000 families across the country. The worst affected department was Cochabamba, where authorities reported that rains and…
