Sarder Udoy Raihan, an FFWC sub-divisional engineer, said the BWBD has available data on floods and sends those to Google. The notifications are sent to these devices through a Google alert between three days and three hours before the onset of a flood, depending on the system’s predictive capacity.īWDB, in collaboration with tech-giant Google and Bangladesh Red Crescent Society, developed the system, which is now functional in the 55 districts of the country.
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To receive flood warnings, people need an android mobile phone.
Under the digital flood forecasting and warning system introduced in 2021, the FFWC issues flood warnings to the people living in flood-prone areas through ‘Google push notifications’ three days to three hours before a flood hits. The Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre (FFWC) under Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB) issues daily flood bulletins and warnings, but the people living in remote and vulnerable areas hardly benefit because they do not have the proper technology. Like Zillur, many farmers lost their crops to the devastating flood that swept Bangladesh’s northeast and northwestern regions in June this year.Īccording to Bangladesh Agriculture Minister Dr Abdur Razzaque, floods damaged Aus (a type of rice) paddies of around 56,000 hectares across the country this year.
“I did not get flood forecast in time, and that was why I failed to harvest jutes, incurring a heavy loss this year,” he said. Ziaur said his jute field was almost mature and could have been harvested within a couple of weeks, but the sudden deluge damaged it. How Bangladesh Became a Test Case for Women’s Empowerment.Bangladeshi Lawyer Rizwana Hasan Awarded International Women of Courage Award.Bangladesh Flood Victims Cry for Relief.
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