Nigeria annual flood outlook 2024
The 2024 Flood Outlook report offers a comprehensive assessment of flood risk across the country, highlighting critical areas of concern and strategic recommendations for mitigation and preparedness. Through
Natural Disasters
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Building resilience in developing countries vulnerable to large natural disasters
Many developing countries are vulnerable to natural disasters that can have large human and economic costs: disaster risk management for these countries is a macro-critical challenge. In recent years,
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Natural disasters 2018
In 2018, there were 315 natural disaster events recorded with 11,804 deaths, over 68 million people affected, and US$131.7 billion in economic losses across the world. The burden was not shared equally
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Water infrastructure resilience: Examples of dams, wastewater treatment plants, and water supply and sanitation systems
Water systems are a special kind of infrastructure system because they perform a dual role: they provide water services while also reducing risks to other services from natural hazards such as floods and
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Principles on investment and financing for water-related disaster risk reduction
The High-level Experts and Leaders Panel on Water and Disasters (HELP), the network to mobilize political will for combating water-related disasters, has developed the “Principles on Investment and Financing
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Nepal disaster report 2019
The Nepal Disaster Report, 2019 tries to comprehensively map the events, activities and programs carried out by the government, non government sectors and other humanitarian partner during the years, 2017
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Characterizing precipitation events leading to surface water flood damage over large regions of complex terrain
<p>Surface water floods (SWFs) that lead to household losses are mainly localized phenomena. Research on describing the associated precipitation characteristics has previously been based on case studies
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Heatwave in striking distance of capital
New Delhi: A severe heatwave is set to hit Delhi and its neighbouring regions which, according to IMD, is likely to push the maximum temperature to 45 degrees Celsius in the next 48 hours. On Wednesday,
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Residents count losses as houses damaged in Uganda floods
Heavy rains in Uganda on Sunday caused serious damage as homes were flooded. Many household items were destroyed and some residents were forced to seek shelter elsewhere as water filled their houses.
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Tornadoes rip through Kansas after one killed, scores hurt by Ohio twisters
Several tornadoes reportedly touched down on Tuesday evening in Kansas to damage homes, uproot trees and rip down power lines, the National Weather Service (NWS) said. About 20 tornadoes, including
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Deficient pre-monsoon rains put almost half of India on drought alert
Nearly two-thirds of the country's area has recorded either deficient or highly deficient rains The pre-monsoon deficiency has caused stress in rural India and led to water shortages in cities As