[lifesaviors] PALACES: Housing solution for China, India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, for flood-prone regions.
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- To: Palaces4People@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,indianenvironmentonline@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,the25bangalore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, novusnow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2003 21:50:32 -0700 (PDT)
LINKS to today's news items on FLOODS or FLOODING in
CHINA, MALAYSIA, INDIA, SRI LANKA. Palaces could have
saved these people a lot of grief, saved a lot of
inconvenience, saved property, saved lives, saved
productivity downtime.
Government administrators and the public should be
adopting PALACES FOR THE PEOPLE for many good reasons.
It is clearly a superior housing solution.
Read & comments please...
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http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_402858,00050004.htm
86,000 threatened in east China by Yellow river dike
collapse
Over 86,000 people in east China's Shandong province
are threatened by surging floodwaters of the Yellow
river which had breached several inner dikes in
neighbouring Henan province, an official report said
on Saturday.
Of all the people under siege, only 5,593 have been
transferred, mostly the elderly, sick and handicapped
and children, the official Xinhua news agency reported
from Jinan, the provincial capital.
Those who have relatives to turn to, had been moved to
nearby counties by boats and the remaining were
staying on higher grounds or terraces, and even on
rooftops, it said.
The dysfunctional inner dikes of the Yellow river
along the Lankao county section in Central China's
Henan province have been slitted by several breaches.
Three slits along the river, one 200 metres long and
two others 100 metres long, were gushing and spurting
out water to inundate plain areas in western Shandong,
endangering the life of over 86,000 locals in 127
villages and submerging 10,800 hactre of cropland,
deputy head of Dongming county, Liu Xueshan said.
As the only three roads to outside had been cut off by
the surging floodwater, the affected areas were facing
the increasing difficulty in evacuating most of local
residents, an official from the disaster mitigation
and relief office of civil affairs bureau said.
According to latest reports, the floodwater have risen
as high as the level of the Yellow river and the
bottom of the water in the flooded plain reached up to
3.5 metres.
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http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2003/10/4/nation/6417376&sec=nation
Floods and more landslides in Penang -- The Star,
Malaysia - Oct 3, 2003
PENANG: A 100-year-old inner city building caved in
and at least five landslides were reported as heavy
rain hit Penang for a second day, resulting in more
parts of the island being flooded yesterday.
...
Thousands of motorists were caught in bumper-to-bumper
crawls as floodwaters rose to almost knee level.
...
In Sungai Pinang, the water level rose to 3.04m at
2.45pm, exceeding the danger level of 3m but receded
to 2.85m by 5.30pm.
...
Datuk Keramat assemblyman Lim Boo Chang, who visited
several villages around Sungai Pinang in a boat, said
about 150 houses were inundated by floodwaters.
He said five boats and a rescue team were on standby
to evacuate residents.
?This is the worst flooding in three years and more
than 2,000 families are affected,? said Lim, who
brought over 800 packages of food and drinks for the
flood victims.
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http://www.abc.net.au/ra/newstories/RANewsStories_959765.htm
Shaanxi faces more flooding
The northern Chinese province of Shaanxi is again
threatened by flooding from the river Wei, only weeks
after half-a-million of its inhabitants had to be
evacuated from the river's rising waters.
The New China News Agency says the area has recorded
heavy rains in the past week.
Protective dikes are saturated and damaged in some
places.
About 200 square kilometres of farmland is under water
and 300,000 people have been unable to return to their
homes.
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http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/COL270028.htm
Floods, landslides kill 10 in Sri Lanka's - report
COLOMBO, Oct 2 (Reuters) - Floods and landslides have
killed 10 people in Sri Lanka's south, a local
newspaper said on Thursday, five months after the
worst rains to batter the island in half a century
killed 250 people.
Two people were killed when a landslide swept a
village in Elpitiya, about 80 km (50 miles) south of
Colombo, and eight people were killed in Yakkalamulla,
about 110 km (68 miles) south of the capital, the
Daily Mirror newspaper said.
Jayalath Jayawardene, the minister for rehabilitation,
resettlement and refugees, confirmed two deaths and
said the government was still sizing up the situation.
"It is not as bad as last time, but the situation may
become serious if the rains continue," he said.
In May, severe rains left nearly 100,000 homeless and
ruined rice, tea and rubber crops forcing the
government to seek international assistance.
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http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_399601,000900010004.htm
Death toll in UP floods reaches 977
Press Trust of India
Lucknow, October 2
The death toll in flood related incidents went upto
977 with a total population of 1.35 crores (13.5
million) being affected by the raging floods in Uttar
Pradesh.
An official release issued in Lucknow said that 2638
villages were marooned in the state and an area of
23.55 lakh (235.5 thousand) hectares has been affected
.
The floods have so far claimed 3215 cattleheads and
34,880 houses have been completely damaged, the
release said adding that 2.41 lakh people have been
shifted to safer areas.
Relief and rescue operations were continuing on a war
footing in all the flood affected districts and over
Rs 14 crores have so far been distributed among the
flood-hit people.
All the major rivers in the state were now receding
though Ganga at Ballia, Ghaghra at Turtipaar and Sai
at Rae Bareli were flowing above the danger mark , the
release added.
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