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Global cost of flooding to increase tenfold by 2030

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Aquaduct Global Flood Analyzer, an interactive online flood-tracking tool developed by the World Resources Institute and four Dutch research organizations, reveals that the numbers of people impacted by floods around the world could nearly triple to 54 million by 2030, reports CBS News.

"A tool like this is incredibly useful to us because it does take into account how extremes can change in the future," said Erin Coughlan, a program officer at the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent's Climate Center in the article... This powerful tool helps us focus our efforts on flood early warning systems or resilience building interventions in these flood-prone areas to reduce the actual damage which will ensure over time."

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