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Extensive flooding in northeast

Nine provinces within the Chi and Mun river basins have been affected.

Bangkok Post

Volodymyr Zelensky’s home town flooded after Russian missile strikes hit dam

Residents have been ordered to evacuate after a dam was destroyed as cruise missiles hit Volodymyr Zelensky’s home town of Kryvyi Rih.

Evening Standard

Likely vote over Louisiana project caught in abortion debate

For a third time the Louisiana Bond Commission is scheduled to vote, Thursday morning, on a $39 million future line of credit for a New Orleans power plant, critical to power drainage pumps that remove rainwater in a city that faces chronic flood problems

The Independent UK

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Extensive flooding in Chi, Mun river basins

More than 260,000 rai of farmland and residential areas in 9 northeastern provinces within the Chi and Mun river basins are heavily flooded, satellite data shows.

Bangkok Post

Zelenskiy condemns ‘vile Russian act’ after strike on dam floods his home city

Inhulets River rises estimated 2.5 metres after cruise missiles strike dam, flooding streets of Kryvyi Rih

The Guardian - UK

Traffic, water shortages, now floods: the slow death of India's tech hub?

Harish Pullanoor spent his weekends in the late 1980s tramping around the marshes and ponds of Yemalur, an area then on the eastern edge of the Indian metropolis of Bengaluru, where his cousins would join him catching small freshwater fish.

Reuters

La Nina prompts summer flood warning

Another La Nina event could see parts of the country inundated again as they race to clean up from previous devastating floods.

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Chadchart plans 'flood highway'

Bangkok governor Chadchart Sittipunt has proposed building a so-called flood highway that would allow run-off from areas upstream of Bangkok to drain faster and directly into the sea.

Bangkok Post

Gunnedah residents feel forgotten after flood inquiry focused on Northern Rivers

With another La Niña on the way, north-west NSW residents like Ken Lloyd, who suffered major flooding in 2021, feel their experience was overshadowed by the Northern Rivers floods just months later.

ABC News

As Queensland readies for a third La Niña event, here's how you can prepare your property

The devastation of February's floods is still fresh in the minds of Queenslanders, but with the weather bureau's declaration of a third La Niña event, here's how you can be better prepared this summer.

ABC News

Burst mining dam in South Africa: what must be done to prevent another disaster

Jagersfontien, a small town in the middle of South Africa with over a century of mining history, awoke to a tragic failure of responsibility on 11 September 2022 when torrents of muddy water cascaded over the embankments that were meant to hold it back. The flood killed one person and…

The Conversation

Burkina Faso court finds Trevali execs guilty of involuntary manslaughter

A court in Burkina Faso has found two executives of Canadian mining firm Trevali guilty of involuntary manslaughter following a mine flood disaster in April that killed eight miners, the company's country manager said on Wednesday.

Reuters

Flood level in Andhra Pradesh’s Godavari river on the rise

All the tourist spots have been shutdown and tourists have been advised to postpone their schedules.

The Hindu

Maths teacher's mission to help Pakistan flood victims who have 'lost everything'

'Villages have been wiped away and some places look like war zones'

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The Independent UK

Pandemic, labor shortage keep hurricane victims in limbo

Nearly six years after extreme rainfall and flooding from Hurricane Matthew damaged many North Carolina homes, some homeowners are still left waiting on repairs

Asharq Al-Awsat

Saudi Arabia Sends Relief Airlift to Support Pakistan’s Flood Victims

Saudi advisor to the Royal Court and general supervisor of the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) Dr.

The Guardian - UK

‘The hospital has nothing’: Pakistan’s floods put pregnant women in danger

A third of the country is under water and a UN fund says almost 650,000 women in affected areas need maternity services

AAP

Post-flood layoffs for NSW dairy workers

More than 200 dairy workers from the NSW Northern Rivers are set to lose their jobs as government funding for flood rebuilds falls short.

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Bangkok Post

Chadchart's first real test

If great power comes with great responsibility, then the large numbers of votes that a politician receives also mean great expectations. This is the case of Bangkok governor Chadchart Sittipunt, who received a record-breaking 1.3 plus million votes at the gubernatorial election in May.

The Hindu

City would not have flooded if 653 pending encroachments were cleared: Siddaramaiah

“Irresponsibility and inaction” of government and “corruption” in BBMP too responsible, he says

Al Jazeera

Fears of more flooding as Pakistan death toll crosses 1,400

Flood victims complain that they are without food and ration as authorities struggle to cope with the disaster.

The Hindu

Andhra Pradesh: Prakasam Barrage discharged over 560 TMC floodwater this season

It is the highest outflow in the last six years, say offiicals

The Hindu

Andhra Pradesh: First flood warning issued for Godavari at Dowleswaram

Inflows at Sir Arthur Cotton Barrage put at more than 11 lakh cusecs

The Conversation

La Niña, 3 years in a row: a climate scientist on what flood-weary Australians can expect this summer

After weeks of anticipation, it’s finally official: the Bureau of Meteorology has declared another La Niña is underway. This means Australia’s east coast will likely endure yet another wet, and relatively cool, spring and summer.

ABC News

Estimated 30,000 megalitres of water lost after cotton property Cubbie Station's dam collapses

Satellite images reveal a dam wall collapse on one of Australia's largest cotton farms, flooding surrounding country with an estimated 30,000 megalitres of irrigation water.

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