Droughts and Floods
Kamla, Kosi and Bagmati rivers in rage, disrupt life
posted 6 months agoDue to intermittent rains in the Terai region of Bihar and Nepal, the water level of Mahananda, Kosi, Kamla and Bagmati rivers of North Bihar is continuously increasing and flood conditions have started to build in the region.

Floods in Bihar: Government prepares to shift people to safer places
posted 6 months agoDue to incessant rains, many rivers in Bihar are in spate and there is a situation of floods in the state. Meanwhile, the Meteorological Department has forecasted heavy rains for the next two-three days, which may worsen the situation.
Heavy rains predicted

Drone to help monitor embankments and save people trapped in floods
posted 6 months ago#HelloWRD: A social media campaign

Flood batters Assam, over 16 lakh people hit
posted 6 months agoFlood situation in Assam continues to remain grim

Floods in Bihar: Helping government fight embankment breach
posted 6 months 1 week agoEvery year, incessant rainfall during the monsoon causes floods in the state, with North Bihar being the worst affected.

Surviving in uncertainty
posted 6 months 1 week agoUncertainty - the pervasive feeling that all of us have been living with from the middle of March 2020. It's the same in our partner villages in Odisha and Jharkhand. Communities we work with have been facing and overcoming uncertainties all through their lives. But this time, the crisis has put unusual stress on their abilities to cope.

Covid-19 and floods: A double whammy for Assam
posted 6 months 1 week agoIt is an annual episode that plays itself out. Assam is, once again, reeling under flood – loss of human and animal life, severe damage to agricultural crops, property, millions of people displaced from their homes, absence of flood preparedness or early warning systems, delayed relief action by the government and the silent apathy of the mainstream media.

A reflection on multi-faceted droughts in Bundelkhand region
posted 6 months 2 weeks agoDrought conditions are not new to Bundelkhand. The acute situation now is a convergence of three types of droughts – meteorological, agricultural and hydrological - cumulatively coinciding as witnessed in Nunagar village in Panna district, Madhya Pradesh. We saw hundreds of vessels queuing up at the panchayat well.

Protecting mangroves, to deal with cyclones
posted 6 months 3 weeks agoCoastal flooding is rising in India and recent evidence shows that as high as 36 million Indians will be at the risk of chronic flooding by 2050.

Flood threat looms amid Covid-19 in Bihar
posted 6 months 3 weeks agoBihar’s annual floods are right around the corner and there is a fear that the flood hazard will collide with the Covid-19 pandemic and amplify it in a manner that emergency responses to both will get disrupted. The state’s strategy to mitigate the effects of flooding needs to be updated in light of the deadly pandemic.
