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The Iloilo Flood Control Project (IFCP) is a project of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) in Iloilo City, Philippines. The project aims to reduce flood damage, which has been an almost yearly occurrence. Financed by the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC), the project is being implemented in two stages.
In 2001 the Government sought proposals for a solution that would allow a typical flood of three to six hours' duration to occur without flooding the city centre. [1] A tunnel that would allow floods to bypass the centre was one way of achieving this, providing it was coupled with temporary storage facilities to keep flows downstream of Kuala ...
Flood mitigation is a related but separate concept describing a broader set of strategies taken to reduce flood risk and potential impact while improving resilience against flood events. As climate change has led to increased flood risk an intensity, flood management is an important part of climate change adaptation and climate resilience .
Coastal Hazards and Storm Surge Assessment and Mitigation (CHASSAM) – to generate wave surge, wave refraction, and coastal circulation models to understand and recommend solutions for coastal erosion. Flood Information Network (FloodNET) Project – the building of a flood center to provide timely and accurate information for flood forecasts.
In England and Wales, the Environment Agency requires a professional Flood Risk Assessment (FRA) to be submitted alongside planning applications in areas that are known to be at risk of flooding (within flood zones 2 or 3) and/ or are greater than 1ha in area, planning permission is not usually granted until the FRA has been accepted by the Environment Agency.
10 December 1969 – Kluang flood. [2] [3] January 1971 – Kuala Lumpur hit by flash floods. 2 March 2006 – Shah Alam hit by flash floods. 19 December 2006 – Several parts of Johor state including Muar, Johor Bahru, Skudai and Segamat were hit by flash floods. 10 January 2007 – Several parts of Johor were hit by flash floods again.
The United States government had also agreed to provide a long-term assistance to Malaysia on storm forecasting and flood mitigation. [ 83 ] United States companies and their employees had provided cash and in-kind donations valued at over MYR1.1 million.
Disaster risk reduction (DRR) is defined by United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) as those actions which aim to "prevent new and reducing existing disaster risk and managing residual risk, all of which contribute to strengthening resilience and therefore to the achievement of sustainable development".