Floods in South Asia have impacted our MDG ambitions. Even now, when we’ve moved away from MDGs to SDGs, flood remains a major threat to us. Just a few large-scale floods in South Asia, like the ones seen in 2004 and 2007, will be enough to trigger famine. But floods have never been treated as a regional issue, despite the main rivers of South Asia flowing over more than two countries. Socio-political organisations within South Asia maintain a distant focus on the flood issue due to their ignorance and stereotypical views on such disasters.

Source: Dhaka Tribune February 26, 2017 13:23 UTC