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 Europe Gets a Flood Directive
Now that the new law has been passed by the EU Parliament, it clears the path for a multilateral approach to floods and their manifold challenges  [more...]



 Flood Protection Now Also EU Affair
Flood protection issues in the EU have so far been a national responsibility. A new directive shall now integrate all measures and also consider those taken by non-EU countries  [more...]



 Belgrade Waterworks and Sewerage (BVK) Win Flood Battle
The Danube riparian states, most of all Bulgaria and Romania, were again ravaged by devastating floods this spring.  [more...]



 Floods in Europe: Work With Nature, Not Against It
As the European Commission is preparing a new EU Directive on flood risk management, WWF asks that lessons be learnt from the repeated catastrophic flood events across Europe.   [more...]



 Flood Protection: Commission Consults Public on EU Action Programme
The European Commission is seeking the views of citizens and organisations in Europe on forthcoming EU action to reduce the risk of floods to people, property and the environment.  [more...]



 Floods in Europe: The EU Takes Action, too
The transnational and interdisciplinary ILUP Project is part of the EU-financed Integrated Water Management Strategy, with which the Union now wants to take the initiative.  [more...]



 Over 216 Million Zlotys for Repairing Flood Damage
In 2003, over 216 millions Polish zlotys (48 millions EUR) were allocated to regional water management administrations for repairing flood damage from 2001.  [more...]



 Flood Management Challenges in the 21st Century
During the last decade even water professionals have been surprised both in the Netherlands and Hungary by floods or near floods. This raised the issue whether the current water policy is sufficiently equipped to cope with floods in these two, low lying countries in the future.   [more...]



 European Competence Centre Water
Upon the initiative of the Austrian Red Cross (OERK), the European Competence Centre Water, (ECCW) is being established, which will dedicate itself particularly to disaster relief and international development co-operation.  [more...]



 Better Predictions and Management Solutions
Floods are one of Europe’s most widespread disasters. Major flooding has occurred nearly every year somewhere on our continent during the last few decades. For example the city of Dresden (Germany) was hit very hard in 2002 by one of the worst flood catastrophes to occur in Central Europe since the Middle Ages. Some major research projects on floods, look into better ways of preventing, predicting, mitigating and managing these catastrophes.   [more...]




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