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A survey was conducted of 240 Bulgarian citizens from the Danube region, the Republic of Bulgaria, to study their awareness and readiness for protection and proper behavior in floods. The participants in the study were divided into two age groups: young from 18 to 39 years and mature from 40 to 64 years. The respondents live in two municipalities from the Danube region - a small municipality of Svishtov and a larger municipality of Pleven. Assessment of the awareness and readiness for proper behavior and protection of the studied group of 240 persons permanently living in the Danube region: - A small percentage of the two surveyed groups know who organizes and provides assistance to flood victims - 47% of the young and 38% of the mature group. - The percentage of sirens for early warning of danger is small in both groups of bags - 47% from a young group and 30% from an adult group. - The two age groups showed in the survey that they are well informed about the main causes of past dangerous floods in the municipalities where they live (65% correct answer in the adult group and 44% correct answer in the young group). - Below 50% in both groups is the level of awareness about problems related to deforestation, excessive deforestation and long-lasting forest fires. - Half of 50% of both age groups know in advance where to look for information related to floods or other natural threats. - There is a large percentage in both groups, 66% mature and 81% young group, who expressed in the survey a desire to increase their own knowledge and to improve and build the right behavior for protection in case of potential flood or another disaster.

Flooding in Malaysia has made various impacts to the victims in terms of damage to property and loss of life. Besides that, the victims also suffer after flood disaster occur. Because of that, the purpose of this paper is to describe the issues and problem of disaster relief management provided by government to the victims in Malaysia for phases during and post-disaster caused by flooding. Presently, the disaster management in Malaysia including flood almost based on top-down approach that was predominantly an official strategy from Directive No. 20 by National Security Council (MKN) of Malaysia. These instructions outline has set the role and responsibilities of the agencies involved and also covers the action of monitoring the activities in disaster management. Therefore, this paper presents findings from the literature review by previous research in this topic. The result show that, in Malaysia, a study concerning the evaluation of the effectiveness policy implementation at levels during and post-disaster that affect the flood victims were poorly implemented. Further to that, this paper will attempt to describe the issues of disaster relief management for phases during and post-disaster that has been criticized by previous researchers.

Calling a news conference during National Flood Safety Awareness Week in the middle of a multiyear drought, city of Austin officials on Friday showed off what they called on-schedule progress of the Waller Creek tunnel project in Waterloo Park.

National flood insurance programs implement flood prevention, create flood zone land-use policy, and establish protocols for relief With climate change and development raising the risk and exposure of human populations to flood, the United States 'National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) has been heavily scrutinized, especially in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. This article examines the validity of the two main criticisms of NFIP, and seeks to inform a better understanding of NFIP's integrity through a comparative analysis between NFIP and several different flood insurance models in Europe. As a result, this analysis yields recommendations that can benefit NFIP, as well lives and properties vulnerable to flood risk in the United States