Flooding and Flood Contril
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Like any unexpected disaster, flooding wreaks havoc in any community. MEDCs may be better equipped to forecast flooding and rebuild afterwards, but lives are still devastated. Development in LEDCs may be set back by years after a major flood.
General Pages

  1. Hydrologic Cycle or Water Cycle - Wikipedia

  2. USGS Water Cycle Graphic

  3. Flood - Wikipedia

  4. See also Rivers & River Processes >

Flooding in MEDCs

Boscastle UK - 16 Aug 2004

  1. Met Office Data

  2. BBC News 24 Video coverage | BBC News Video

  3. Rescuer describes ordeal

  4. Boscastle: The Flood (pdf leaflet by NCDC)

  5. On This Day: Dozens stranded in Cornish floods

  6. Boscastle one year on - a mixed recovery

  7. Boscastle - Then and Now in pictures

  8. 2007 - Boscastle on alert after flooding
        
      Photos | Video coverage

2007 Floods in England

  1. 2007 UK rain and floods in figures

  2. July Floods: At a Glance

  3. Flood claims to top £2 billion

  4. Floods spell 'crisis' for farming

  5. Why has it been so wet?

  6. The science of floods [video]

  7. New Thames Barrier could be built

  8. Flash flooding a 'freak' event

  9. Where is the next Boscastle?

  10. On This Day - 16 Aug 1952 - Lynmouth Flood

  11. Q&A: Flooding and insurance in the UK

Flooding in LEDCs

Bangladesh

  1. New technology to fight hunger after floods

  2. Forecasting system provides flood warnings to vulnerable residents of Bangladesh

South Asian floods - 2007

  1. South Asia flood victims face health crisis

  2. South Asian floods strand millions

  3. Understanding the Asian monsoon

Southern African floods of 2008

  1. Floods kill six in central Mozambique

  2. Southern Africa flood catastrophe fear

  3. Aid reaches flood-hit Mozambique

  4. Mozambique floods give life to new villages

Mozambique floods of 2007

  1. 2007: Army called in for Mozambique floods - worse then 2000 and 2001

  2. Flood aid struggle in Mozambique

  3. Floods force Mozambicans to leave - hunger and disease stalk flood victims in camps

Mozambique floods of 2000

  1. Full Coverage - BBC

  2. Satellite photos of flooding - ReliefWeb

  3. Disease stalks Mozambique - BBC

  4. Mozambique flood: the threat of disease - BBC

Flood Management and Control

  1. How a small flood control dam works

  2. Grasscrete: Sustainable urban drainage product

  3. Flood Control online game

  4. Flood Control in the Netherlands - Wikipedia

  5. Floods & Flood Control - Canadian Encyclopedia

  6. Manitoba: Flood management in the Red River basin 

  7. Ontario

  8. Hurricane Hazel: The evolution of flood control

  9. The role of conservation authorities in flood management and forecasting 

  10. UK Environment Agency

  11. Managing Flood Risk

  12. What makes a flood happen?

  13. UK Flood maps (requires you postcode)

  14. Prepare for flooding

  15. Forecasting system provides flood warnings to vulnerable residents of Bangladesh

  16. See also Dams >

  17. See also Rivers & River Processes  >

 
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