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Increased floods in some areas and droughts in others, is having a substantial impact on the ecosystem and agriculture of the affected region and harming the local economy, often hitting developing countries the hardest.

The Flood and Drought project is working on a groundbreaking online system containing an array of data such as hydrographic, meteorological and demographic information in near-real time piloted by 10 water authorities across six countries and three transboundary river basins. This is a packaged solution providing not only data and information but also tools to integrate this information into the users planning.

The online portal allows for the users to locate and identify hazards, estimating impacts and providing risk assessment. It also includes a water indicator tool and water safety planning to support decision making as well as an application to understand crop yields.

To make the information accessible to stakeholders, we maintain data streams from more than 20 different online sources of remote sensing and climate data.

We compute statistics and complex indices based on latest science for enhanced assessment of flood or drought severity, available on country or river basin scale.

The software is developed as part of the Flood and Drought Management Tools project funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) together with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the International Water Association (IWA).