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The dates and a call for papers for the 2010 European Water and Flood Modelling Conference have been announced. The event, a comprehensive and significant wet infrastructure simulation and management technology gathering, will be held 28th and 29th September 2010, at the Crowne Plaza, Reading, UK. This once-a-year learning opportunity for the European expert modelling community will feature ...

Jun. 4, 2010

The RapidEye constellation of five earth observation satellites have been focused on the East Coast of Australia, dedicating resources to capture valuable images of the ever-changing face of its flooding landscape. The readily enhanced RapidEye satellite data has been of interest to a range of Government agencies in recent weeks. Currently, the movement of the Loddon flood waters in Victoria is ...

Jan. 31, 2011

By WaterLink International - Geomares Publishing bv

CIWEM endorses the proposed increase in responsibility for local authorities as the importance of local expertise in the context of effective flood risk management cannot be underestimated. However, CIWEM is concerned that with this increase comes sufficient funding and capacity building to support local delivery and decision-making. It is crucial that LAs are supported by effective guidance and ...

Jul. 28, 2009

By WaterLink International - Geomares Publishing bv

Innovyze has announced the dates and issued a call for papers for the 2011 European Water and Flood Modelling Conference. The event, a comprehensive wet infrastructure simulation and management technology gathering, will be held 20th and 21st September 2011 at the historic Tortworth Court hotel in South Gloucestershire, UK. This once-a-year learning opportunity for the European expert ...

May 11, 2011

By WaterLink International - Geomares Publishing bv

High sea levels, strong winds and large waves will increase the risk of coastal flooding this week. Severe flood warnings are in force for along the River Severn today, as high sea levels and heavy rain threaten to cause further flooding this week. Homes protected from flooding Since Friday evening over 87,000 homes have been protected from flooding and over 74,000 ...

Feb. 3, 2014

By The Environment Agency - England and Wales

Innovyze, a leading global innovator of business analytics software and technologies for wet infrastructure, today released the technical program for the Drainage and Flooding stream of the 2011 European Water and Flood Modelling Conference. The event, a comprehensive and significant wet infrastructure simulation and management technology summit, will be held September 20-21, 2011, at the ...

Jul. 20, 2011

By Innovyze

In the coming years the EU Floods Directive1 will require Member States to produce flood hazard and risk maps. Taking the UK as a case study, new research highlights the need for advances in data collection, mapping and groundwater flood warning systems to meet EU requirements for maps and management plans. Although often occurring less frequently than fluvial (river) flooding, the effects of ...

Jul. 17, 2009

By European Commission, Environment DG

Parts of southern, south west and central England remain at risk of flooding as river levels remain high. While the overall picture is starting to improve as river levels stabilise, risks to people and property remain. Severe flood warnings remain in place along the Thames and in Somerset where water levels continue to rise in response to recent rainfall. Ground water flooding also continues to ...

Feb. 16, 2014

By The Environment Agency - England and Wales

We all know someone who has been affected by flooding. The unrest of knowing that water can flow into your home, destroying memories. We at Wapro understand that this causes distress. In the seaside town Rhyl in Wales, UK, studies have shown that the level of protection of the storm-hit coastal ...

Apr. 27, 2017

By Wapro AB

High sea levels combined with strong winds and large waves will increase the risk of coastal flooding along the south west and southern coasts tonight and into Wednesday. After the wettest January on record in places, further widespread rain – falling on already saturated ground – could cause river and surface water flooding in the south and west of England as well as parts of the ...

Feb. 4, 2014

By The Environment Agency - England and Wales

Located at the seaside in an area with heavy rainfall, the Indonesian city of Semarang is prone to flooding. Every year, uncontrollable water masses wreak havoc on people’s homes and lives. A unique solution shelters citizens from the water masses. Semarang is situated on the northern side of the island of Java. The pulsating metropolis is home to approximately two million people, ...

Apr. 14, 2015

By Grundfos

Flood prevention actions can redirect flooding to another location. A new French survey indicates that current local compensation policies to deal with this situation may be financially unviable. It suggests more practical solutions would involve insurance schemes and state intervention, as well as local water management institutions. The EU Directive on the Assessment and Management of Flood ...

Jan. 29, 2010

By Science for Environment Policy - European Commission DG Environment News Alert Service

The threat of floods has been part of our lives ever since mankind changed their nomadic ways and decided to settle in certain places. Obviously some parts of the world are more prone to floods than others, but it has been a global problem throughout history and it is still affecting people all over the world today. Recent images from central Europe show that floods still pose a real threat and ...

Nov. 11, 2014

By BBA Pumps

The epic flooding that hit the Atlanta area in September was so extremely rare that, six weeks later this event has defied attempts to describe it. Scientists have reviewed the numbers and they are stunning. “At some sites, the annual chance of a flood of this magnitude was so significantly less than 1 in 500 that, given the relatively short length of streamgaging records (well less than 100 ...

Nov. 16, 2009

By U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)

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

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May 4, 2010

By BIOGEST AG

Flames shot up and a loud boom was heard on Monday 2nd May as the US government blew a hole in a Mississippi River flood levee in a bid to save several towns in Illinois and Kentucky from being inundated. A witness said water began to pour out of the hole after the explosion, and is expected to flood some 130,000 acres of farmland in Missouri in order to spare the towns. The deliberate ...

May 3, 2011

By Bekaert Group

The government of Azerbaijan has entered into a contract with engineering consultancy Royal Haskoning and research institute Deltares, to prevent more devastating floods as experienced by the country during spring 2010. The agreement is part of an initiative of cooperation between the Netherlands and Azerbaijan that will see improvements to water management and ...

Sep. 8, 2010

By WaterLink International - Geomares Publishing bv

The pumping station designed by Atkins for the Middle Level Commissioners at Wiggenhall St Germans in Norfolk was formally opened on Wednesday 20 April 2011 by Lord James Russell. The £38M pumping station, which pumps the land drainage and flood flows from the middle level system into the tidal River Ouse, is the biggest facility of its kind in the UK with a capacity 40% greater than the ...

Apr. 21, 2011

By Atkins

A £5.3 million award to 49 local authorities to help them tackle surface water flooding - a problem when the ground, rivers and drains cannot absorb heavy rainfall - was announced today by the Environment Minister Huw Irranca- Davies. Last year local authorities were invited to submit bids, for £20,000 - £100,000 to carry out immediate engineering works and to produce specific management plans to ...

Mar. 19, 2010

By Defra (the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)