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Australia is a country of droughts and flooding rains — and that contrast is nowhere more starkly illustrated at the moment than SA's Riverland, where water is seeping into desiccated landscapes for the first time in decades.

Water is a scarce commodity in much of Africa, particularly in southern Africa. This is well symbolised in the name of the Botswana national currency, pula (rain). When tragedies like flooding and drowning take place, it may seem inappropriate to speak of the scarcity and commodity of water. For example,…

First the mouse plague, now this?

Several victims of the Eugowra flood, including a child and an 87-year-old man, were billed more than $1,000 by NSW Ambulance after they were winched to safety during the sudden devastation in November.

Part of the project is to uncover the River Malago, but then it might flood

The state's emergency agencies will receive more flood rescue boats and training to avoid a repeat of the deadly Northern Rivers flood this year, where people were stranded on rooftops and left to rely on the "tinny army".

NSW will bolster its flood-rescue capabilities after criticism of the state's response to a series of major inundations.

More than 120 people were killed Tuesday as the worst floods in years battered DR Congo's capital Kinshasa following an all-night downpour, authorities said in a provisional assessment.

Scientists fear an ecological disaster is playing out in parts of the river because of ‘alarmingly’ low dissolved oxygen levels

A woman swept away by raging waters during recent Victorian floods has been reunited with the first responders who saved her life.

The state government says it has secured more than 22,000 nights of accommodation for those impacted by the flood event, but residents are feeling the pinch as waters rise.