Philippine floods 2004

Guyana floods 2005

Bangladesh floods 2004

Haiti floods 2004

To control the Tiber's floods.

We had to operate within the 100 year floodplain.

The 1931 Central China floods or the Central China floods of 1931 were a series of floods that occurred in the Republic of China.

Inundations in Antananarivo, Madagascar via MiranaPriscilla on twitter

The worst floods occurred in March 2011 and displaced 21,000 people.

Of particular concern is the possibility of impact generated tsunamis, which is receiving increasing attention from all countries with extended coastal areas.

It ranks 20th in the list of worst floods in history.

When disaster strikes the economy gets blown, people lose a job, floods, war, conflict, bad governance, all of those things there is nothing to fall back on.

A series of floods hit Queensland, Australia, beginning in December 2010.

Romania The 2006 European floods were one of the most devastating natural disaster from the History of Romania.

In 1993, Nepal had experienced the worst floods and landslides in its history.

On a smaller scale, European countries like Germany, Poland, and the Czech Republic have also suffered serious flooding.

The result would be floods, drought, dramatically reduced food production, and a great loss of our precious biodiversity.

It is mainly associated with bad things happening to people which includes drowning, missing, flooding and many more.

India, China, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Myanmar could experience floods followed by droughts in coming decades.

The 2009 Karachi floods () in Pakistan's financial centre, Karachi, have killed at least 26 people.

3. The violent winds, accompanied by torrential and sustained precipitation and rains, resulted in swollen rivers and devastating floods.

And when the rain does come, it so often leads to flooding and added distress, and the cycle of poverty and hunger and disease.

The 2011 China floods are a series of floods from June to September 2011 that occurred in central and southern parts of the People's Republic of China.

In July 2004, heavy monsoon rains caused extensive flooding in a large area of Bangladesh.

Disbursal of relief funds to help Italy rebuild after severe floods in 2011 took almost a year, owing to politicization in the Council.

Even as I speak, my own country, Guyana, a low lying coastal State, is experiencing the worst floods to have hit our country in over 100 years.

Tropical storm Brett battered the Atlantic coast in August 1993, causing floods that led to evacuation and the loss of homes and crops.

Meanwhile, Central Europe faced its worst flooding in decades after heavy rains swelled major rivers like the Elbe and the Danube.

Withdrawal of water during the dry season causes serious drought, while the release of excess water during the rainy season produces severe floods in Bangladesh.

When disaster strikes the economy gets blown, people lose a job, floods, war, conflict, bad governance, all of those things there is nothing to fall back on.

Thailand s worst flooding in the past half century killed more than 600 people and displaced thousands of residents and workers from their homes and factories.

In July 1997, the city was heavily affected by a flood of the River Oder, the worst flooding in post war Poland, Germany and the Czech Republic.

Floods In 2009 October heavy floods occurred, isolating 350 villages and leaving millions homeless, which is believed to be first occurrence in 1000 years.

Over the past 18 million years or so, this hotspot has generated a succession of violent eruptions and less violent floods of basaltic lava.

The 2006 and 2007 flooding in Johor has resulted in loss of RM1.5 billion and 18 lives in addition to the temporary displacement of 110,000 people.

Other countries included the Islamic Republic of Iran (Bam earthquake), Morocco (Al Hoceima earthquake), Namibia, Grenada, Haiti and Guyana (floods), and the Philippines, Pakistan and Nepal (storms and flash floods).

China was also a disaster prone developing country where, every year, such disasters as flooding and earthquakes caused enormous economic damage.

Noting with gratitude the support provided to emergency relief operations during the floods in 1989 by various countries and intergovernmental and non governmental organizations,

In 2007, an Argentine contingent including helicopters, boats and water purification plants was sent to help Bolivia against their worst floods in decades.

In January 2005, torrential rains caused severe flooding in the densely populated coastal regions of Guyana, including the capital, Georgetown.

In western Pakistan nearly three weeks of heavy rains resulted in severe flooding, which in turn led to the collapse of a major dam in Sind province.

In April and May 1993, severe floods in western Kazakhstan, had resulted in heavy death toll and sizeable material losses.

The Committee noted that satellites could provide information on the state of the ocean and on the potential for floods and droughts or on the high numbers of intense thunderstorms.

The possibility that the embankment protecting against overflow on the river Ikopa near the capital might rupture aggravates the threat of a shortage of rice, the staple food of the population.

The German federal state of Saxony and the Czech Republic were not as affected, because in the four years after the record floodings of 2002, the two partners built a stronger levee system along the Elbe.