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WELL - Resource Centre Network for Water, Sanitation and Environmental Health
Flood proofing infrastructure may not be economically viable, especially in informal settlements with poor land tenure. Figure 2: Where not to build; areas that flood (or are affected by landslides) Flood shelters People may not be able to permanently avoid living in areas that flood, but may be able to ...
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Emergencies - South Asia Floods :: Oxfam GB
As the immediate needs of the flood victims were reached, and as the water subsided, we had the challenge of supporting people ... districts who had lost their income following the floods. Local people worked on repairing roads, flood shelters, and others carried out community work. Employment through the programme created an income for many ...
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Emergencies - Preparing for the floods: Oxfam's work in pictures :: Oxfam GB
Photo: Gail Williams Flood shelters A flood shelter is a three to five acre area of raised ground (around 18 to 35 ... bring their livestock (pictured), possessions, and even their homes, to the safety of a flood shelter. Flood shelters can accommodate 100-300 families. Facilities include a community room for those without shelter, tube ...
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Argument - Urbanization Intervention Possibilities
However, in the long run this system will not hold back the migratory flood. Rural-urban migrants will find loopholes in the system, particularly because cheap rural labor is ... illegal rural-urban migrants, many of whom live on the street, below bridges, in makeshift shelters, or with friends and relatives - apparently without appropriate registration. Some of them find casual work ...
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River of No Return
One approach is to refurbish existing abandoned building into shelters. This plan would require the strengthening of flood control protections already in place. Naturalization of the river would not ...
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Tornadoes | Natural Disasters and Weather Emergencies | US EPA
Know where safe rooms and community shelters are located. Know your risk and have a safe place to go, with time to ... an elderly person. More info... What to do about water from household wells after a flood . Do not turn on the pump - danger of electric shock. Do not drink or wash ...
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Kind Planet Preparing For Disaster
During a disaster it is important not to let Animals drink flood or drain water which may be contaminated. Feed as close to normal time as usual ... be used when treating injuries. Evacuation Locations Create a list of important locations in advance. Shelters for humans do not allow Animals. Finding an acceptable boarding facility and making note of ...
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An update on what's happening in King County government- King County
Treatment Division and its Industrial Waste Pretreatment Program. July 9, 2008 Benefiting fish, families and flood protection, Tolt River floodplain project gets under way One of the most important salmon- ... continued operational reforms are among immediate upgrades to conditions at King County's aging animal shelters that are part of a joint proposal from the County Executive and County Council that ...
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Hurricane Katrina Search and Rescue - National Wetlands Research Center
Phoenix to rescue about 250 individuals from homes inundated with flood waters. The last of the USGS volunteers arrived back at the NWRC around midnight on ... . The volunteers plan to bring the evacuees to land, where they will be transported to shelters and medical facilities as necessary. Today’s crew of NWRC scientists is expected back in ...
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Mound Prairie Flood - Part 1
DayCreek Journal August 19 , 2007 ~ A Flood of Historic Proportions ~ The Southeast Minnesota / Southwest Wisconsin Flood of 2007 This is the ... ...LAT.LON .DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE. ..REMARKS.. 0600 PM FLASH FLOOD DODGE CENTER 44.03N 92.85W 08/18/2007 ... RED CROSS SHELTERS WERE SET UP. FLOODING REPORTS BEGAN AROUND 915 PM SAT AUG 18. 0920 PM FLASH FLOOD LA CROSSE 43 ...
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