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Climate change and urbanization are putting aging sewer systems, increasing overflows and pollution at risk, while green infrastructure solutions could help. Upgrades, accurate models, and flexible planning are essential for resilience.

The present paper, based on a field study in the Roya Valley (southern France) following storm Alex (2020), aims to analyse the reorganisation of the waste system in response to a disaster.

When it rains heavily in Lagos, the torrents of water gushing down streets and sidewalks sweep up disposable drinks cups, plastic bottles and packaging and dump them into the coastal city's drains and waterways.w

In the face of climate change, YouthADAPT Challenge Winner Ecobarter helps vulnerable urban communities in Nigeria lower flood risk through sustainable waste management.

Removing waste from water bodies helps tackle various issues, including flood risks. Plan International worked with two Salvadoran communities to build and install a new waste collection method "Riobardas" in a river that contributes to the flood risks.

The Government of Ghana today received $150 million in additional financing for the Greater Accra Resilient and Integrated Development Project (GARID) from the World Bank to improve flood risk management and solid waste management.

Bleaglee Waste Management helps communities mitigate the risk of floods by first using drones to identify waste in waterways and drainage channels.

As rising seas threaten to flood hundreds of toxic sites along the California coast, the risk of flood-related contamination will fall disproportionately on the state’s most marginalized communities, finds a new study.

Asphalt pavement formulated with recycled plastic has successfully survived heavy truck traffic and the atmospheric rivers of the winter of 2022-23 after a section of Highway 99 in California flooded in January.

Healdsburg recycles 350 million gallons of effluent annually and gives it away for free.