The annual flooding of millions of acres of agricultural land along the River Nile in Egypt is an event greeted with celebratory relief. Landowners and agricultural labourers depend on this bountiful river to flood their fields, depositing a fertile layer of silt in the process, then slowly recede so that planting can get under way.

With the barometer set to ‘extreme’ as climate change takes hold, catastrophic seasonal flooding is liable to become a regular occurrence. Despite being aware of this, however, successive governments have done absolutely nothing to alleviate the plight of that segment of society which has no option but to eke out a meagre existence on flood plains throughout the country. ...

 RAWALPINDI - Water and Sanitation Agency (WASA) on Thursday announced that it had cleared silt and solid waste from Nullah Leh to save the low lying areas from flood during the upcoming monsoon season.

KARACHI: There are only four months left before the next monsoon season begins and at least 250 villages have still not been drained of water and 87% of water sources are unfit to be used for drinking in Sindh, according to the People’s Accountability Commission on Floods (PACF).