🌧️ Understand floods and flood risks
What is a flood?
A flood happens when water covers land that is normally dry. Heavy or prolonged rain can cause rivers and drains to overflow. Flash floods can develop quickly and may leave little time to act.
How is El Niño connected?
El Niño changes rainfall patterns. In some places, it can contribute to heavier rain and greater flood risk. Other places may experience drought, heat or water shortages. No two El Niño events are the same. Local forecasts are therefore more useful for families than general information about El Niño.
📻 Follow updates from local authorities ONLY through trusted channels 🛡️
How can floods affect families?
Floods can:
🛟 Cause drowning and injuries.
🏠 Damage homes, roads and essential services.
💧 Contaminate water and food.
🏥 Interrupt health care and access to medicines.
🏫 Disrupt schooling.
🥗 Damage crops, food supplies and livelihoods.
🦟 Increase the risk of diseases spread through unsafe water, poor sanitation and mosquitoes, including cholera, acute diarrhoeal diseases and other locally relevant outbreaks.
🚶🏻♀️ Force families to leave their homes.
Who may need additional support?
👶🏽Young children
🤰🏽Pregnant and breastfeeding women.
👴🏼 Older people
👩🏻🦽 People with disabilities
❤️🩹 People with health conditions or regular medicines
🏞️Families living near rivers or in low-lying areas
Talk with your household and community about who may need help and how that support will be provided 🗣️
✅ What you can do today: Find your official local warning source and share it with at least three people who may miss digital alerts, including households without phones, older people and persons with disabilities. Only share information from official sources and do not forward unverified warnings.
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