1. Home
  2. Update

Soak it up: China’s ambitious plan to solve urban flooding with ‘sponge cities’

Source(s): Guardian, the (UK)
Upload your content
Photo by Flickr user Tauno Tõhk / 陶诺 CC BY-SA 2.0 https://flic.kr/p/bQKArk

Photo by Flickr user Tauno Tõhk / 陶诺 CC BY-SA 2.0 https://flic.kr/p/bQKArk

By Anna Leach

Can the might of the Chinese government overcome complex needs and investor disinterest to deliver an ambitious programme to save China’s 450 million urban inhabitants from floods?

Flooding causes more economic, social and humanitarian damage than any other natural disaster and has affected 2.3 billion people over the past 20 years, according to research from the Global Resilience Partnership. China has been particularly affected. This year saw the worst floods in the country since 1998. In July 150 people were killed in central and northern China after intense rainfall.

Read the original story here

Explore further

Hazards Flood
Themes Capacity development Private sector Economics of DRR Water Critical infrastructure
Country and region China
Share this

Please note: Content is displayed as last posted by a PreventionWeb community member or editor. The views expressed therein are not necessarily those of UNDRR, PreventionWeb, or its sponsors. See our terms of use

Is this page useful?

Yes No Report an issue on this page

Thank you. If you have 2 minutes, we would benefit from additional feedback (link opens in a new window).