The Flood Blog

I've talked a lot about the human factor on this blog: floods don't become disasters until people get involved. This got me wondering if...

Well, the Christmas cake has been iced, the gin has been poured, so it's time to gather round for a tale of festive inundation. On...

Here's where I'm keeping interesting flood-related bits and pieces which I haven't been able to fit anywhere else. Seen something to go...

A few weeks ago I attended a lecture on groundwater, something I'd never thought much about before (although chucking dye down potholes...

Last year, Google rolled out a pilot flood forecasting service in Patna, India. For an unnecessarily dramatic introduction, look no...

One of the things I keep running into while researching this blog is the concept of the levee effect: that construction of flood...