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Floods are often caused by heavy rainfall, rapid snowmelt or a storm surge from a tropical cyclone or tsunami in coastal areas. Floods can cause widespread devastation, resulting in loss of life and damages to personal property and critical public health infrastructure. Between 1998-2017, floods affected more than 2 billion people worldwide.
The Floods Directive foresees 6-yearly cycles aiming to reduce the risk of flood damage in the EU. The first cycle of implementation was 2010- 2015. The second cycle of implementation covered the period 2016-2021. The Commission assessed the second cycle’s Preliminary Flood Risk Assessments as prepared by the Member States.
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Jan 29, 2020 · Protect your health during a flood by: Knowing your community’s evacuation route and warning signals, and identifying areas prone to flooding or landslides. Chlorinating or boiling all water for drinking and food preparation. Ensuring uninterrupted provision of safe drinking water is the most important preventive measure to be implemented ...
Jun 21, 2023 · The results of the flood-risk analysis – at the most detailed spatial scale available – found urban centres and their surrounding regions to be the hotspots of flood risk in Europe. The researchers found, when looking at flood risk EAD with structural flood defences in the baseline year, that Germany had the highest flood risk for residential buildings, followed by France, Italy and Spain ...
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About us. A WHO field staff talks to a woman fetching water from a water catchment tank in Kiribati. Singapore contributes to regional health emergency readiness through achieving Emergency Medical Team classification. Parliamentarians call for strengthening health workforce in the Asia Pacific. WHO calls on Pacific leaders to make health and ...
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Jul 27, 2023 · The importance of preparedness: strengthening community resilience against flash floods. When floods hit the Ban Kao Many community in Nan District, Luang Prabang Province, Laos, people were prepared. An early warning system from national agencies helped to forecast the flood. Once the announcement had been made a trained search and rescue team ...
Oct 13, 2023 · The viewer presents for the first time in one map the areas in the European Union which, according to the national authorities, carry a potentially significant flood risk. The flood risk information presented in the viewer is provided by EU Member States with support from the Commission and the European Environment Agency.
Jun 23, 2022 · The dreadful flood in Bangladesh is deeply concerning, and I am saddened by the suffering of millions of flood-affected people in the country. My prayers and heartfelt condolence go to them and to those who have lost loved ones,” said Dr. Bardan Jung Rana, WHO Representative in Bangladesh, World Health Organization.The floods started on 17 May 2022 affecting Sylhet and Sunamganj districts of ...
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Flash flooding in Lao People’s Democratic Republic. During the evening of 23 July 2018, torrential rain overwhelmed a dam in the south of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic. A tsunami-like wave inundated villages and wiped out houses, crops and roads. Continued rains and flooding left some areas accessible only by helicopter. From the ...
May 22, 2023 · Severe rainfall across northern Italy and central Europe, including parts of Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia, has caused numerous rivers to burst their banks, leading to the death of at least 13 people in Italy and forcing thousands of residents to flee their homes. The extreme weather has also reportedly led to landslides and the destruction of roads, hampering emergency ...
