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| White Plains, NY - Questions about flood insurance and changes to flood insurance rate maps? Come to one of four workshops sponsored by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Full Story |
Saturday, September 8, 2007
California Flood Policy Is Like...Gymnastics?
By Gary A. PattonExecutive Director
Planning and Conservation League
Negotiations are in full gear, primarily concerning the interim land use measures which would be put in place until a flood control plan for the Central Valley is completed in 2012. (These discussions principally affect AB 5 and SB 5.)
PCL staff member Jonas Minton is playing a key role in these negotiations. He is seeking to ensure that new flood policy incorporates wise land use into the flood control plan and provides complementary benefits to both public safety and the environment.Full Story
After the flood ... Where do you begin?
You fill out forms, meet with relief workers, make phone calls. And sometimes you cry.
RUSHFORD, MINN.It has been days since the flood waters receded, revealing the mess their lives have become.
The floors of their Victorian home in town were buckled, the walls ripped out at the knees, the basement filled with raw sewage. At their farm outside town, rivers tore 6-foot-deep gullies into fields, turned pastures into beaches, uprooted culverts, toppled fences and scattered cattle and sheep into surrounding forests and bluffs.
Hours of tedious meetings with Red Cross and FEMA workers led to, well, nothing. The kids were shipped to the Twin Cities with Grandma to recover and prepare for the start of school, even though they still have nowhere to live once school starts.
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U.N. says North Korea unusually open about flood damage
By Mark Chisholm
PYONGYANG (Reuters) - North Korea has responded to outside help after devastating floods with unusual openness, a top U.N. official in the country said, but added providing assistance to the reclusive state was still a massive challenge.
Jean-Pierre de Margerie said the floods, which left at least 600 dead, had also left hundreds of thousands homeless and destroyed farmland and infrastructure, a blow to a country that faces chronic food shortages.Publish Post
Insurance is a washout for flood victims
By Richard Gray, Science Correspondent, Sunday TelegraphLast Updated: 12:17am BST 02/09/2007
Flood victims are being left with "worthless" home insurance cover after being blacklisted in the wake of the devastating floods that swept across the country this summer.
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Householders hit by the flooding in Yorkshire and Gloucestershire over the past two months have been presented by their insurance companies with massive excesses of up to £10,000 and new clauses that mean they will not receive a payout if temporary flood defences are not erected.
Report sought on flood damage to rice crop
By Sher Baz Khan
ISLAMABAD, Sept 2: The federal agriculture ministry has asked food departments in Sindh and Balochistan to immediately send area-wise details of damages caused by recent floods to the rice crop in the two provinces.
Official sources told Dawn on Sunday that the floods were feared to have curtailed rice production by more than 200,000 tons. The federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock (Minfal), in collaboration with the provincial food departments, has already conducted an initial survey which has revealed some disturbing figures severe damages to more than 271,000 acres of rice paddies only in Sindh.
Initial estimates suggest that about 20-25 per cent of the crop in Sindh has been damaged.
The damage in Balochistan can be substantial as well, a source in Minfal said.
It now seems unlikely that the target of producing 5.7 million tons of rice this year will be achieved.
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By Sher Baz Khan
ISLAMABAD, Sept 2: The federal agriculture ministry has asked food departments in Sindh and Balochistan to immediately send area-wise details of damages caused by recent floods to the rice crop in the two provinces.
Official sources told Dawn on Sunday that the floods were feared to have curtailed rice production by more than 200,000 tons. The federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock (Minfal), in collaboration with the provincial food departments, has already conducted an initial survey which has revealed some disturbing figures severe damages to more than 271,000 acres of rice paddies only in Sindh.
Initial estimates suggest that about 20-25 per cent of the crop in Sindh has been damaged.
The damage in Balochistan can be substantial as well, a source in Minfal said.
It now seems unlikely that the target of producing 5.7 million tons of rice this year will be achieved.
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Warring parties turn their sights on river red gums
A plan to save the Murray's red gum forests could spell disaster for small towns along the river, writes Carmel Egan.
THE desperate fight to save Victoria's Murray River red gums has opened a new battle front in increasingly bitter water wars.
On one side are the thirsty giants that line the river from Lake Hume to the South Australian border and those who would save them.
On the other are farmers, irrigators and small timber communities that co-exist with the forests but compete with them for water.
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