Chandigarh: Pulling up the Punjab govt for failing to meet its own deadline, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has noted the absence of a clear timeline for floodplain demarcation along the Satluj, ...

In July 2024, a severe storm brought three months of rain in just 24 hours to the Latvian city of Jelgava. “The rainwater levels were even up to one meter high,” said Mareks Tipa, a local civil ...

The rains hadn't stopped for days, leaving coastal waterways swollen with little capacity to handle the runoff that kept pouring into their watersheds from the historic deluge unleashed on ...

The study combined models that predict urban expansion and land-use changes with hydrodynamic models, and the results were validated using actual data for São Caetano do Sul, a city in metropolitan ...

In recent years, as a result of increasingly intensive rainfall events, the associated water erosion and corrosion have led to the increase in breach risk of aging dams in the United States. In this ...

Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD, USA. Urbanization in arid regions requires the design of stormwater runoff quantity control structures ...