flash flood News

A flash flood swept through two villages in the eastern Indonesian province of East Nusa Tenggara, killing at least 16 people and destroying more than 180 homes, media reports said Thursday. Hours of torrential rain caused rivers in Timor to burst their banks, washing away as many as 182 homes in two villages of the Toianas sub-district in the early hours of Wednesday, VIVAnews online news portal ...

Nov. 4, 2010

The Little Missouri River in Southwest Arkansas experienced a flash flood Friday, with waters that rose over 20 feet in just 5 hours, killing 20 people. In response to this severe and unusual flooding the USGS deployed a team of scientists to document and study the flow and height of the floodwater as it coursed down the Little Missouri River and its tributaries. "Flash flooding is one of the ...

Jun. 16, 2010

The United Nations and its humanitarian partners have issued an appeal in response to flooding in the east of the country. The appeal seeks US$15.5 million to cover the needs of at least 70,000 people over the next six months. “We have witnessed the generous response of local communities, who, despite widespread poverty, have helped affected families with food, water, and clothing and who ...

Sep. 26, 2008

By IRIN

MWH Soft, a leading global innovator of wet infrastructure modeling and simulation software and technologies, has announced the successful implementation of its FloodWorks software in a 3900 mi2 (10,000 km2) pilot area around Nuweiba, Egypt. The system was used to successfully predict flooding in the region in February 2010, the worst flash flooding event in Egypt since 1994. The implementation ...

Mar. 17, 2010

By Innovyze

Tri-Tech Holding Inc. (Nasdaq: TRIT), a premier Chinese company that provides turn-key solutions in China for the water resources, water and wastewater treatment, industrial safety and pollution control markets, ...

Jul. 14, 2011

By Tri-Tech Holding Inc.

Tri-Tech Holding Inc. (Nasdaq: TRIT), which provides turn-key water resources management, water and wastewater treatment, industrial safety and pollution control solutions, announced today that it has secured contracts for flash flood early warning and small river hydrologic monitoring projects in two provinces in China. The projects total approximately $1.42 ...

Nov. 1, 2012

By Tri-Tech Holding Inc.

Tri-Tech Holding Inc. (Nasdaq: TRIT), which provides turn-key water resources management, water and wastewater treatment, industrial safety and pollution control solutions, announced today that it has secured contracts for flash flood early warning and small river ...

Jul. 12, 2012

By Tri-Tech Holding Inc.

Tri-Tech Holding Inc.( http://www.tri-tech.cn ) (NASDAQ: TRIT), a premier Chinese company that provides leading turn-key solutions in China for water resources, water and wastewater treatment, industrial safety and the pollution control ...

Jun. 8, 2011

By Tri-Tech Holding Inc.

Tri-Tech Holding Inc. (Nasdaq: TRIT), which provides turn-key water resources management, water and wastewater treatment, industrial safety and pollution control solutions, announced today that it has secured contracts to develop core software systems for flash flood early ...

May 2, 2012

By Tri-Tech Holding Inc.

Tri-Tech Holding Inc. (Nasdaq: TRIT), which provides turn-key water resources management, water and wastewater treatment, industrial safety and pollution control solutions, announced today that it has secured contracts for flash flood early warning and small river hydrologic monitoring projects in three ...

Jan. 17, 2012

By Tri-Tech Holding Inc.

Tri-Tech Holding Inc. (Nasdaq: TRIT), which provides turn-key water resources management, water and wastewater treatment, industrial safety and pollution control solutions, announced today that it has secured contracts for flash flood early warning projects in three provinces in China. The projects totaled approximately $2.66 million (approximately RMB 16.74 million). ...

Feb. 15, 2012

By Tri-Tech Holding Inc.

Tri-Tech Holding Inc. (Nasdaq: TRIT), a premier Chinese company that provides turn-key solutions in China for the water resources, water and wastewater treatment, industrial safety and pollution control markets, ...

Jul. 20, 2011

By Tri-Tech Holding Inc.

Tri-Tech Holding Inc. (NASDAQ: TRIT), a premier Chinese company that provides leading turn-key solutions in China for water resources, water and wastewater treatment, industrial safety and the pollution control markets, today announced that its affiliate, ...

May 25, 2011

By Tri-Tech Holding Inc.

Tri-Tech Holding Inc. (Nasdaq: TRIT), which provides turn-key water resources management, water and wastewater treatment, industrial safety and pollution control solutions, announced today that it has secured contracts for flash flood early warning and small river ...

Apr. 20, 2012

By Tri-Tech Holding Inc.

Floods have once again wreaked havoc across the country and climate scientists and meteorologists suggest that the problem is only going to get worse with wetter winters and rivers bursting their banks becoming the norm. A team based at Newcastle University and their colleagues in China have developed a computer model that can work ...

Dec. 3, 2012

By Inderscience Publishers

What do Victoria, Pakistan, Rio de Janeiro and Madeira have in common? All of these states, countries, cities and islands have been hit badly by floods in 2010. However, the finger of blame should not be pointed solely at the common scapegoat of global warming, as an enquiry from the UN suggests. Losses of $43 billion are a lot to stomach for any nation. Even Western countries with ...

Oct. 4, 2010

Forecasts of Bangladesh’s current floods were largely ignored by people living in the affected areas, say scientists, exposing gaps in disaster preparedness. At least 100 people died and 250,000 were left homeless when flash floods and landslides that followed torrential rains in Bangladesh in the ...

Jul. 6, 2012

By SciDev.Net

Recent flooding in parts of Turkey has underscored the need to focus on ecologically-sound flood management practices to shield urban areas from extreme weather events, particularly those caused by climate change. “The presence of deadly floods right in the heart of Istanbul first of all points at the insufficient infrastructure of the city,” said Dr. Filiz Demirayak, the CEO of WWF-Turkey. ...

Sep. 14, 2009

By WWF International

The Freuchie Mill area in Fife Scotland, has long been prone to flooding and many residents in the community have learnt to live with the daily fear of heavy rainfall which could bring further damage and misery to their lives. However, for some in properties owned by Kingdom Housing Association, the need to respond to the sound of the flood air horn at Freuchie Mill, ...

Jul. 1, 2011

The Director of Cranfield University's National Soil Resources Institute today (27June) called for detailed investigations of ground conditions across the catchments of rivers that have flooded. He believes that a better understanding of all the factors contributing to the flooding will help manage the impact of future extreme rainfall events. “After the severe floods of November 1999” ...

Jul. 6, 2007