Floods Continue Across Northern and Central Italy – Death Toll Rises to 3
After the devastation left by floods in Genoa on 09 October 2014 where one person was killed in the deluge, continued heavy rain across northern parts of Italy has left…
Author: Richard Davies
Update: Floods in Hatay Province, Turkey – Death Toll Now 5
Update 15 October 2014: After weeks of searching, rescue teams have found the body of a woman who went missing in the floods in September in the southeastern Turkish province…
Pakistan Floods, September 2014 – Facts and Figures
In early September 2014, heavy rainfall in northern India and Pakistan resulted in widespread flooding in Indian Jammu and Kashmir, and the Pakistan provinces of Azad Kashmir, Punjab, Gilgit-Baltistan, Khyber…
Storm Water Sewers and Wetland Restoration for Blue Island, Illinois
Illinois Governor Pat Quinn announced on Saturday 11 October 2014 around $1 million investment for flood mitigation projects in Blue Island, llinois. The project is part of Governor Quinn’s agenda…
UK Floods – Lower Tame Flood Scheme
A large part of the flood protection project in Tamworth, Staffordshire, UK, has now been completed. The Lower Tame flood risk management scheme is made of of 4 parts. The…
€80 Million EU Aid for Serbia and Croatia Floods
EU Commissioner for Regional Policy, Johannes Hahn, has today announced an aid package worth nearly €80 million proposed by the European Commission for Serbia, Croatia and Bulgaria after flooding disasters…
Floods in Nicaragua After 378 mm of Rain in 24 Hours
A slow moving low pressure system moving from the Caribbean dumped record amounts of heavy rain on north and south-western Nicaragua on 9 October 2014, causing floods and landslides in…
1 Killed in Genoa Floods, Italy
Around 70mm of rain fell in 24 hours in Genoa (WMO figures) between 9 and 10 October. Heavy rain also fell across wider areas of the region of Liguria in…
1 Dead, Hundreds Evacuated in Vanuatu after Record Rainfall
The island of Efate, part of the Shefa Province, Vanuatu, saw a record 157.7 mm of rain fall in 24 hours between 06 and 07 October 2014. The heavy rain…
At Least 10 Killed in South Sudan Floods – Updated
Update 10 October 2014: Flooding spread to South Sudan’s Jonglei state on 08 October 2014. Thousands have been displaced and around 3,260 homes destroyed by flooding in Twic East county,…
UK’s Biggest Coastal Flood Management Scheme
UK’s biggest ever coastal realignment scheme at Steart, a joint project between WWT and Environment Agency, has been completed. The construction of Steart Marshes means the Environment Agency can continue…
Malaysia – 147mm of Rain in 24 Hours Floods Parts of Sabah
Kota Kinabalu, the capital of the state of Sabah, located in East Malaysia, saw 147 mm of rain fall in the 24 hour period between 06 and 07 October 2014.…
Seychelles and World Bank Plan for Better Disaster Recovery
(Seychelles News Agency) – Seychelles has become the first African country to partner with the World Bank in preparing for natural disasters. According to a press statement from the World…
4 Dead After Floods in Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo
The eastern provinces of North Kivu and Katanga, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), have experienced severe flooding over the last 3 days after heavy rainfall fell in the region.…
$300 Million World Bank Loan to Aid Serbia Flood Recovery
The World Bank has approved a $300 million loan (227.5 million Euros) for the Floods Emergency Recovery Project for Serbia. The loan will run over a 30-year period and is…
New Mexico Requests Major Disaster Declaration for Summer Floods
U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich and U.S. Representatives Steve Pearce, Ben Ray Luján, and Michelle Lujan Grisham, have asked for prompt action to help New Mexico recover from…
