Elevated hand pumps supply clean water during floods

Flood resilient handpumps in Nepal give communities access to clean, safe water during the monsoon.

09
July,
2018

Elevated hand pumps supply clean water during floods

Flood warnings save lives across boundaries

Trans-boundary flood early warning systems have the potential to save thousands of lives across Asia. This example - presented by Practical Action and the Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction - shows the potential impact of a warning system between Nepal and India in the Mahakali river basin.

03
July,
2018

Flood warnings save lives across boundaries

Resilience is more than income – lessons from Accra’s 2015 floods

In June 2015, after two days of heavy rain, flood water washed away Sarah’s small store in Accra, which provided for her family of three. The flood that hit the city in June 2015 affected around 53,000 people in the city and caused an estimated US$100 million in damages. Slum areas in the Odaw basin were among the worst hit.

19
June,
2018

Resilience is more than income – lessons from Accra’s 2015 floods

How cities can use nature to cope with change

Heatwaves across south-east Australia continue to break records. New Orleans is still searching for solutions to its flooding issues following Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Researchers look for global lessons in the aftermath of extreme weather events to see how cities can respond to environmental challenges ahead.

18
June,
2018

How cities can use nature to cope with change

Flood mock exercise triggers disaster preparedness

Disaster preparedness is crucial for prevention of losses and successful coping as well as building community flood resilience. Better preparedness ensures reduced loss of people, their assets and livelihoods. Building on the end to end flood early warning systems Practical Action has been helping communities in its projects to adopt ‘flood mock exercise’ as an approach to self-test the capacity to respond floods and institutionalise disaster preparedness at all levels in Nepal.

15
June,
2018

Flood mock exercise triggers disaster preparedness

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