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Cambodia made progress in improving the country's irrigation network and in expanding its rice cultivation area. Phnom Penh radio claimed that a network of ditches, canals, and reservoirs had been constructed throughout the country "like giant checkerboards, a phenomenon unprecedented in the history of our Cambodia."
River flows of the Tonlé Sap are being impacted by climate change. [6] A major climate change issue for Cambodia is the impact it has on the Tonlé Sap lake and Mekong river system. [7] [8] Climate change will impact water flow in the country and increase the frequency of droughts. [6] [9] Hydropower dams have further exacerbated the issue. [10]
The 2012 Nigeria floods began in early July 2012. It killed 363 people and displaced over 2.1 million people as of 5 November 2012. According to the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), 30 of Nigeria's 36 states were affected by the floods and the two most affected areas were Kogi and Benue States. [88]
The 2023 Nigeria floods was caused by climate change and heavy rain fall. Most often, climate changes causes flooding in Nigeria, it causes a lot of damages to properties and kills a lot of people. In the Oba-Ile neighborhood of Akure, the capital of Ondo state, numerous places were flooded earlier in 2023, and a resident was carried away by a ...
Economic Damage Homes Under water Cities Real-time reporting (Channels) Thailand: 730 [3] [4] 1,327,740.64 (calculated from 8,298,379 Rai of paddy fields damaged by the flood) [5] Total damage US$45 billion (1440 billion Baht) (including to foreign nations and corporations) and an immediate economic cost of 1.3–1.5% Thai national GDP [6 ...
Nigeria's government has separately warned of rising water levels in the country's largest rivers, the Benue and Niger, which could cause floods in the oil-producing Niger Delta region in the south.
Floods that swept through Nigeria's northeastern Borno state have affected up to 1 million people, the state governor said on Wednesday, as authorities scrambled to rescue residents and put them ...
Floods unrelated to the monsoon occurred in Phuket. Despite government assurances after the 2011 disaster , flooding has shutdown two factories at an Amata estate. [ 7 ] As of Oct 9th, 28 out of 77 Thai provinces had been affected and 39 people had been killed, but the health ministry put the death toll at 51, [ 8 ] with more than 3 million ...