Thousands without fresh water as flooding spreads
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Environment secretary to address Commons as towns are cut off and hospitals evacuated.
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More than 140,000 homes could be without drinking water for a fortnight in Gloucestershire.
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Flooding in India and Bangladesh has now left some 1.5 million people homeless, officials say.
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People in flood-hit areas are urged not to panic as massive efforts begin to get drinking water to those stranded.
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Thousands of people in Britain were left stranded in villages and towns Monday during the worst flooding in 60 years, which Prime Minister Gordon Brown linked to climate change.
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By ZARAR KHAN  KARACHI, Pakistan - Thousands of people were stranded on rooftops and tree branches Wednesday as cyclone-spawned floods surged through towns and villages of Pakistan's coastline, officials said.
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More than 300 people are feared dead after a storm triggers flash floods in the Philippines, officials say.
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A massive clear-up is taking place after flooding damage estimated at hundreds of millions of pounds.
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Hundreds of thousands of people  remained stranded with little food and water for a seventh day  in eastern India, while heavy rains continued to pour in the  west sparking more flooding, officials said on Tuesday.
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Floods unleashed by torrential rains have killed at least 100 people and left dozens more missing in southwestern China, prompting authorities to put the massive Three Gorges hydroelectric project on alert, officials reported Tuesday
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Helicopters delivered food to survivors and picked up the sick and injured on Friday as flash floods began to recede. More than 650 people were killed and nearly 400 are missing in the disaster, which was triggered by back-to-back storms.
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Up to 200,000 people in the Wilkes-Barre area were ordered to evacuate their homes Wednesday because of rising water on the Susquehanna River, swelled by a record-breaking deluge that has killed at least 12 people across the Northeast.
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The Panamanian government declared a state of emergency Saturday in response to torrential rains which triggered flooding and mudslides, leaving at least 10 people dead and a dozen others missing.
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Much of Britain has been under flood alert as heavy rain sweeps across the country.
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Thousands of homes remain without water and power in northern England after the weekend's extreme weather.
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Three people were dead and hundreds were stranded on Monday as torrential downpours caused widespread chaos and the worst floods seen in northern England in years.
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NANO VILLAGE, Pakistan, Feb. 12 -- Troops and rescue workers raced to a coastal town devastated when heavy rains burst a large dam, sending water surging through the streets and sweeping people into the Arabian Sea. At least 80 were dead and hundreds missing, an official said Saturday.