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Remote-sensing-based climate and flood warning technology is to upgrade flood management of Pakistan. The project will help build the capacity of Pakistan Meteorological Department and other agencies responsible for flood forecasting, early warning and management at the national, provincial and district levels. UNESCO, with the financial assistance of Japan, is introducing the system at a cost of 3.5 million dollar. The system is expected to be completed by 2013.
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We have just received a new article about ICIWaRM, the International Center for Integrated Water Resources Management, which operates under the auspices of UNESCO. It is written by Robert A. Pietrowsky, Eugene Z. Stakhiv, and William S. Logan, USACE Institute for Water Resources.
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The April–June 2010 issue of A World of Science, UNESCO’s natural sciences quarterly newsletter, is available. This issue contains background information on the floods in Pakistan. UNESCO’s work here has been triggered by a coordinated action of the Pakistani Permanent Delegation to UNESCO, together with the Secretariat of the Netherlands IHP Committee, in close coordination with Dr Gretchen Kalonji, UNESCO’s Assistant Director-General for Natural Sciences. The webpage on mapping of Pakistan’s floods proved helpful to many people.
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