Two years after the deluge, Thailand braces for more floods
The Baan Khun Phra Guest House, on the bank of the Pasak River in the former Thai capital Ayutthaya, has been knee-high in water for the past week. About two…
Floods and the price of commodities
The floods are upon us again and the rural areas have again taken a hit as the production system has been adversely affected. What is to be done in the…
Preventing floods due to large rain events
The engineers are at it again. They want the engineering works to start on Kalabagh Dam [KPK] and Bhasha dam [BD]. Why? They understand that stored water is probably the…
Death toll elusive two weeks after floods in India
India's northern hill state of Uttarakhand is trying to get a handle on the number of its dead two weeks after flash floods and landslides devastated its Garhwal region. The…
Floods
Before the construction of Sukkur Barrage, crops were raised on the flat lands on both sides of the River Indus in Sindh after it had been hit by floodwaters. The…
Hearts, minds and floods
IT is the militants that the world is worried about. Weeks into the devastating floods that hit so many parts of Pakistan, the international media concentrated on one aspect of…
After the floods
The devastating floods of July displaced 20 million people across the country. The immediate phase of disaster relief – provision of food, temporary shelters, clothes and medicines – has been…
Floods and the logic of life
So much is happening that Pakistan is in a tail-spin. Is that something to worry about? Is the problem a self-created one, or is it the result of natural calamity?…
The rainbow after the floods
It has been three months since record rains devastated Pakistan with unprecedented flooding. The initial shock of the floods was followed by an emergency-and-relief phase whose speed and scale is…
Root causes of floods
The flood inquiry commission formed in the wake of the 2010 floods, under the Supreme Court’s directive, has unveiled that a major cause of the devastating breach of Tori dyke…
