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India
The Raising Risk Awareness initiative seeks to determine whether climate change has played a role in these events, to help India brace for similar events in the future.
India has suffered from many disasters in its recent history, both natural and climate-related, and these continue to cause devastation.
This image shows an irrigation project in Tamil Nadu.
This image shows a tanker, Prathibha Cauvery, which dragged anchor and was pushed aground at the Besant Nagar beach, in South Chennai, by strong wind brought by cyclone Nilam on October 31st 2012.
In this image, workers fill and carry sand filled geo bags for loading on boats. The bags will be pitched on the banks of the river as a part of the Integrated Flood and River Bank Erosion Risk Management Investment program funded by the Asian Development Bank. The project has given the villagers of Brahmaputra, Guwahati, Assam confidence to live and work in the area.
This image shows a woman surveying a grounded oil tanker after tropical cyclone Nilam.
This image shows workers of the Integrated Flood and River Bank Erosion Risk Management Investment program, funded by Asian Development Bank, which has given the villagers of Brahmaputra, Guwahati, Assam confidence to live and work in the area.
This image shows workers of the Integrated Flood and River Bank Erosion Risk Management Investment program, funded by Asian Development Bank, which has given the villagers of Brahmaputra, Guwahati, Assam confidence to live and work in the area.
This image shows the Integrated Flood and River Bank Erosion Risk Management Investment program, funded by Asian Development Bank, which has given the villagers of Brahmaputra, Guwahati, Assam confidence to live and work in the area.
This image shows women standing on the shore in Southern India.
This image shows a woman drawing water from a well in Ajmer, Rajasthan, India