URBAN FLOODING – DISASTER PREVENTION AND MITIGATION
Flood management with integrated holistic plan
Flooding is an annual event in many cities in monsoon region. Flooding occurs in coastal, deltic areas and river basins. Towns and villages are flooded with loss of life and properties. The sporadic urbanisation, unsustainable construction in water basins, filling up and silting of canals and waterbodies and inadequate drainage system are increasingly causing flood disasters in cities besides natural disasters. There are larger issues like deforestation, creation of artificial lake, construction of large dams, largescale landuse changes etc. Climate changes are expected to bring more disaster to low level countries.
COASTAL PLANNING, CONSERVATION OF BIOSPHERE AND WATER
Case Study from coastal area of Bengal
One third of the world’s urban areas is on the coast. In many countries coastal areas are vulnerable to natural disaster and there are advarse environmental impact on fragile ecology, flora and fauna. There is increasing pollution and urbanisation.
Drafting Schedule of Recommendation
(Recommendation must be within 5pages. Annex could be attached if it is more than 5pages.)
- Draft outline of recommendation (content and brief description of what should be contained in each item) is to be uploaded on the APWF website by May 7th
- Comments on draft outline will be collected by Water Weblog until June 30th
- Preliminary draft Recommendation is to be presented at the 2nd GC meeting (July 12-13th)
- The first draft Recommendation is to be distributed at 2nd SC (August 6th) and uploaded on the website (also e-mailed to GC member in charge of each theme)
- Comments on the first draft Recommendation will be collected by Water Weblog until September 30th
- The 2nd draft Recommendation is to be uploaded on the APWF website by October 12th (also e-mailed to GC member in charge of each theme)
- APWF will combined all Recommendations into a draft “Policy Brief”
- Working Group meeting on draft Policy Brief will be held in Kuala Lumpur on the occasion of the South-east Asia Water Forum(October 21-25)
- APWF will finalize Policy Brief by November 16th
*To ensure participation of water stakeholder in drafting process each deadline must be kept strictly.