| This report is designed and aimed to develop an understanding of water-related disasters and their impacts hoping that the scientists, engineersand policy-makers join hand to fight water-related disaster leading to prosperous future of each nation. The results presented in this report allow thereader to evaluate the current state of the global and regional trends of water-related disasters. The outcome of the report emphasizes on the numbers of emerging issues and challenges for concrete evaluation of the social and economic vulnerabilities to water related disasters. This is an update of the Technical Memorandum No. 3985 of PWRI published October 2005. This revised version emphasizes the water-related disaster trends since 1980 to 2006 using EM-DAT data base. |
