Resilience building in flood-prone areas require capacity-building of the community so that people can anticipate, absorb, adapt, mitigate and transfer disaster risk Villagers try to repair a breached ...

Tipra Motha Party (TMP), ruling BJP's aly in the state, is holding protests against the construction of embankments by the Bangladesh government along the border with Tripura. The demonstration took ...

The West Bengal government has decided to offer a “provisional compensation package” to acquire land for building embankments in three 2009 cyclone-affected districts of the State. The three districts ...

LAHORE: Ravi Urban Development Authority CEO Imran Amin says building embankments and barrages to restore the Ravi river is the top priority and the Waste Water Treatment Plant (WWTP) also will soon ...

More people in the Mekong Delta are planting trees and building embankments made of natural materials to prevent erosion along rivers and canals. A natural embankment in Phung Hiep District’s Bung Tau ...

A joint secretary of Water Resources Ministry and six officials of Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB) have admitted their negligence of duty in connection with irregularities in building ...

Can dams actually prevent floods in Bangladesh? Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB) has constructed over 15,000 kilometres of embankments and town protection dams all over the country. In the ...