The World Bank Board of Executive Directors approved a new project for Argentina today totalling US$200 million to strengthen flood risk management in the city of Buenos Aires and improve…
Wide areas of Bangkok, Thailand, were flooded on 21 June after a period of heavy rain across the city. The flooding brought traffic to a standstill forced some schools and…
Yesterday marked the official opening of the Thornton Composite Reservoir, a new 7.9 billion gallon capacity reservoir connected to Chicago’s “Deep Tunnel” network that will offer flood protection for over…
Underground flood tunnels are expensive mitigation options that divert river flows around important communities, re-releasing the flow downstream. Costs of flood tunnels vary depending on size and materials used. Following…
As another part of our series on flood tunnels, below we look at the future Calgary flood tunnel project that was announced in November 2013 as a potential part of…
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…
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…
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…
