Flood Hub by Google: Know when the flood is coming

It was one of the worst disasters ever to occur in Pakistan, according to the UN. Two years ago, a third of the country’s entire area was flooded and 15,000 people died or were injured after an exceptionally heavy monsoon rain. Such floods could become more frequent in the future: According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, countries like Pakistan are among those most affected by climate change.

Flood disasters always surprise people in a country, whether in the Ahr Valley or in Libya. Floods are one of the most common natural disasters – and they hit countries in the Global South particularly hard. There is a lack of measuring stations, sensors and infrastructure there to predict floods at an early stage and warn the population accordingly.

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