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Hace 1 día · More than 2.4 million people live or work in a 100-year floodplain — areas that have a 1% chance of flooding each year — according to the draft state flood plan.
Hace 1 día · Melo said the system, built in the 1970s, was never intended to contain so many floods. Rio Grande do Sul has been hit by three in the past year alone. “The system needed a $1 billion to fix ...
Hace 16 horas · [1/4] Wet books lay in a classroom at school after floods due to heavy rains in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, May 22, 2024. REUTERS/Diego Vara Purchase Licensing Rights
Hace 3 días · Eleven years on from one of Australia's largest air evacuations, Bundaberg flood victims have finally seen a levee design that's meant to save their city. But they fear nothing will be done by the ...
9 de may. de 2024 · To protect against flood events and to minimize damage, structures in flood-prone areas must be designed considering the maximum flood magnitude. Prediction of a flood event in a basin is an important and challenging issue since such an event depends on hydrological data with random properties.
8 de may. de 2024 · The floods are the worst natural calamity ever to hit the state of Rio Grande do Sul, officials say. At least 95 people have died and more than 130 are still missing. An estimated 1.4 million...
17 de may. de 2024 · An estimated 15,270 hectares have been flooded and 6,853 hectares of cropland — 10 percent of the country’s arable land — have been destroyed, making them unusable for the important upcoming ...
