Chinese authorities are gearing up to improve precautionary measures against disasters. Faced with a rainy season which has left 1,179 people dead so far, China has drafted its first flood

After 50 complacent years, Europe's state of the art dyke system is softened for the kill by raging riverine floods

A proposed Indian dam releases a flood of protests in Bangladesh

The cash-strapped Bihar government has plugged funds meant for the Jawahar Rozgar Yojana (JRY) for flood control measures. The state's rural development department has asked the district magistrates

British scientists are using computer simulations to see how floods can be tackled

The benefits that can be derived from controlling flood waters intelligently have been wasted, largely because of wrong, archaic notions about the floods can play, which have persisted since colonial times.

If the mid-August assault on some officials of the Bihar water resources department, on an inspection tour of the eastern Kosi embankment in Saharsa, is anything to go by, flood control officials in

With every monsoon, the extent of floods in the country and its ensuing misery increases. Is this suffering largely self inflicted?

Even as annual monsoon floods devastate Bangladesh, a plan formulated by the World Bank to prevent flooding is bogged down in controversy