Plan for South Asia: WMO to set up flash flood guidance centres
The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) has decided to establish flash flood guidance centres in Pakistan and India aimed at reducing human and economic losses by strengthening the South Asian region’s early warning system.
Vice-President of WMO’s Asia-Pacific Region Dr Ghulam Rasul said that the decision was taken at a meeting of the organisation’s management group in Abu Dhabi.
The meeting was participated by eight regional member countries of WMO: Pakistan, India, South Korea, Japan, China, the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Hong Kong.
Dr Rasul said that the group had chalked out a plan for the 2018-2023 period aimed at dealing with the impact of climate change, especially focusing on least-developed countries.
He said that the South Asia region was highly vulnerable to natural calamities such as flash floods, monsoon floodings and tropical cyclones and there was an urgent need to strengthen the early warning system.
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He said the centres in both Pakistan and India would become operational by 2018.
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