Sentence examples for flood settlements from inspiring English sources

If it works as planned, the dam will also contain the summer rains that regularly flood settlements along the lower Yangtze, potentially saving tens of thousands of lives.

The Middle East experienced terrible rain and snow storms last year, which destroyed tents and flooded settlements.

His entire flood insurance settlement went to that.

Drawing on research in 10 poor, flood-prone settlements in Cape Town, South Africa, this article explores whether providing housing addresses risk.

The Rio Fuerte burst its banks and flooded sixty settlements.

Rainfall caused 20 rivers to burst their banks, flooding 75 settlements, including the city of Quepos, Costa Rica on the Pacific coast.

A flood destroyed village foundations and settlements (c. 2350 BCE).

High speed debris flows flooded the settlement of Motomachi, which is situated at the toe of the slopes.

Nevertheless, the proposed flood-vulnerability indexes show a significant increase of the exposure to floods in residential settlements, which has doubled since the 1950s.

More recent estimates suggest that between 32,000 and 34,000 people were displaced by flooding in informal settlements each year during the winters of 2007, 2008, and 2009 (Ziervogel and Smit 2009).1 This flooding seldom claims lives, but results in significant damage to property, roads, and infrastructure.

The DRMC identifies Kanana as among the most flood-prone informal settlements on the Cape Flats.