The displacement of people and overcrowding that often results from flooding provide optimal conditions for outbreaks of respiratory and gastrointestinal illness.
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Sloping ground, water and clay combined to leave devastation in its wake in Durban.
Could South Africa’s flooding in 2022 have been foreseen? It has long been a challenge for scientists and engineers around the world.
A quarter of South Africans in cities are living in informal settlements.
Women and girls living in poverty face many forms of discrimination and pressure during events like flood disasters.
Flooding is arguably even more problematic in informal settlements because of the lack of planning.
Rebuilding informal settlements after a disaster must be done through learning from those who live in the settlements.
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