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- Scores Die and Ship Sinks in Storm in Philippines
  Posted by okami from New York Times
  A typhoon killed about 80 people in floods and landslides, and at least 4 others have died in the sinking of a ferry with more than 700 passengers and crew members.
  
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- Fifteen years after the Great Flood of 1993, floodplain development is booming
  Posted by Jeff from Feeds.feedburner
  Once it was a cornfield; now it's a Wal-Mart, a Taco Bell, a Target. Here along a stretch of Missouri's Highway 40, in the Chesterfield Valley area just west of downtown St. Louis, what's said to be the largest strip mall in the country sits on about 46 acres of Mississippi River bottomlands. Less than 20 years ago, the land was open space. It's b...
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- 600 dead from N. Korea floods
  Posted by Jeff from MSNBC
  Floods that swept across North Korea earlier this month killed at least 600 people, double the previously known toll, the country’s official news agency said Saturday.
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- Oil spill adds to misery in floodwaters - U.S. Life
  Posted by Jeff from MSNBC
  “It’s going to come down the Verdigris until they shut that water supply off,” he said. “So it’s just a matter of time.” Is it just me or is Bush's America looking like a third world country?
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- New Orleans 'still a flood risk'
  Posted by Jeff from BBC News
  Large parts of New Orleans are still at risk of floods nearly two years after Katrina, a US Army report says.
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- Dams : A Blessing or Curse?
  Posted by Orato
  The debate of whether dams are a blessing or a curse depends on which side of the fence you are. Over 48,000 dams are in operation worldwide for providing drinking water, irrigate land, produce Hydro-Electricity and prevent floods. Yet, today, over one billion people do not have access to safe drinking water.
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- Floods displace 200,000 in Jakarta
  Posted by Jeff from MSNBC
  At least 20 people have been killed and 200,000 forced from their homes by floods in Indonesia’s capital, an official said Sunday, as rivers overflowing from four days of rain inundated the city.
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