Flooding
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Even an hour-long rain generates flooding and waterlogging in many areas.
Why can't children reach school?
Flooded institutions paint grim picture of our students' situation
How rain turns into destructive floods
Catastrophic floodwaters can topple houses, sweep away cars like matchboxes and turn basements into death traps within minutes. Time and again, nature demonstrates its overwhelming force, and we're at its mercy
Tk 5,617cr project fails to prevent waterlogging
Every monsoon, Chattogram residents brace themselves for the annual ordeal of ankle- to knee-deep water flooding the low-lying areas following rainfall.
Living with the river or fighting against it?
It is neither possible nor desirable to eliminate flooding completely, for floods are intricately linked to the very survival of people in this delta country.
Less flooding, more liveability
Our craze to build and pave has led us to create cities of concrete and asphalt. Canals and wetlands are paved over.
Twice flood-affected Lalmonirhat now bracing for erosion
Riverside people from northern Bangladesh devastated by floods twice this season, are now losing their houses and lands to erosion.
Flooding kills 49 in northern Nigeria
Flooding caused by torrential rains on Nigeria's border with Niger has left 49 people dead and another 20 missing, the emergency services said yesterday.
312 dead as mudslides, flooding sweep through Sierra Leone capital
At least 312 people are killed and more than 2,000 left homeless as heavy flooding hits Sierra Leone's capital Freetown, leaving morgues overflowing and residents desperately searching for loved ones.
Rising floodwater force evacuations in Sydney
Hundreds of residents south of Sydney are forced to flee their homes because of rising floodwaters.