Flood check plea as 1947 marked
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The public is urged to check if they live in areas at risk of flooding, on the anniversary of the 1947 floods.
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Hundreds of householders are mopping up or bracing for flooding as heavy rain continues
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The United Nations and the Red Cross appealed for 55 million dollars in emergency aid for hundreds of thousands of Pakistani flood victims, warning that an already dire situation could worsen.
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Twelve-foot-high earthen berms stretching 100 miles along the Rio Grande in South Texas were built decades ago to protect the region's irrigated farms and citrus groves from floods. But now a four-county region known as the Valley, with a growing population of 1.3 million, risks flooding again because of levee erosion.
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The head of the Environment Agency calls for Â£1bn a year to prevent future flooding, as waters continue to rise.
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By Mike Keller, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  May 26--The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers issued a regional wetlands filling permit on Friday and opponents have already vowed to take the matter to court.
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Stricter planning controls are needed if flood insurance is to remain widely available, says the main insurance body.
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Water levels in areas worst-hit by flooding are falling but may take three days to clear, firefighters say.
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British Prime Minister Gordon Brown pledged more funds on Monday to tackle some of Britain's worst flooding for nearly 60 years as rising waters made thousands homeless and plunged entire towns under water.
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The government came under pressure on Thursday to step up its response to last monthÃÂÃÂs flood disaster and provide cash to South Yorkshire and Humberside flood victims as Community Secretary Hazel Blears visited the area.
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BHUBANESWAR, India  - Flooding triggered by   monsoon rains in the past few days have left 1.5 million people   homeless and damaged thousands of acres of paddy crop in the   eastern Indian state of Orissa, officials said on Sunday.
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The UK is set to be hit by more heavy rain following severe floods which claimed the lives of four people.
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Thousands of homes could be spared flooding misery if a more sustainable approach is taken, campaigners say.
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By Gale Courey Toensing, Indian Country Today, Oneida, N.Y.  Jun. 20--UNITED NATIONS -- Of the dozens of recommendations submitted to  the U.N. Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in May, one of the most  universal and compelling was a call for the protection of water.
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Prime Minister Gordon Brown pledges he will do everything in his power to help those hit by flooding.
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By Carl Mario Nudi, The Bradenton Herald, Fla.  Dec. 17--PALMETTO -- Property owners will pay double what they pay now for the city to keep their neighborhood from flooding, if the city commission adopts a new fee schedule at a meeting Monday.
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TEWKESBURY, England -- Emergency workers rescued hundreds of trapped people yesterday as water swallowed swaths of central England in the worst flooding to hit the country for 60 years. Officials said some rivers were still rising, with the western section of the rain-swollen River Thames on the verge of bursting its banks.