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Flood control

Muddy water running through an informal settlement of huts

South African floods: Protecting people must include a focus on women and girls

Women and girls living in poverty face many forms of discrimination and pressure during events like flood disasters.

Port Arthur Texas flooding

FEMA maps lack up-to-date information on flood risk

Environment
An abandoned mosque outside the seawall in Muara Baru, Jakarta. The city is sinking as a result of massive groundwater extraction, and the problem is especially bad in Muara Barus, which is already below sea level.

Trying to confront a massive flood risk, Jakarta faces ‘problem on top of problem’

Environment

Midwest deals with rising water, record-setting floods in some areas

Global Politics

Assessing the costs of the Iowa floods

Business, Economics and Jobs

Missouri: Flooding Farmland to Save a Town

The Army Corps of Engineers blew up a section of a Mississippi River levee to try to protect an Illinois town from rising flood waters. As a result, nearly 130-thousand acres of Missouri farmland were flooded. Amanda Jones lives in Dexter, MO. She says that her main concern is the explosives that are being used […]

The World

Longing for New Orleans

You might think anyone planning to return to New Orleans after the floods of 2005 would be back by now, but many families are still painfully separated, focused on survival rather than their dreams.

Water Warnings

A team of MIT students design an inexpensive radio communications system to warn Honduran communities of rising flood waters.

Flood Lessons

After the devastating 1953 flood in the Netherlands, engineers there built an elaborate network of dikes, islands and floodgates. The New Orleans flood is causing Dutch politicians and specialists to re-examine their protection systems and the country’s r

The World

Sandbag housing in South Africa

Business, Economics and Jobs

A South African design team has come up with a plan for building affordable housing — using sandbags. But the houses may still cost more than the South African government can afford. Correspondent Terry Fitzpatrick reports for The World from Cape Town.