India: Assam turns to village disaster management committees to deal with worsening floods

Residents of India’s northeastern Assam state are used to dealing with annual deluges. But as climate change brings worsening flooding, they are trying out a new tool to cope: a village disaster management committee reports Teresa Rehman for Reuters AlertNet.

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