Historical Changes in the Flood Hazard at Khartoum, Sudan

The 1988 floods at Khartoum were frequently described as “unprecedented”. However, an examination of evidence for floods caused by the Nile and rain storms during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries leads to the conclusion that neither the Nile flood nor the rain storms nor their coincidence in one season were unprecedented and that similar situations will recur.We argue that most problems were created by complacency, lack of planning and mismanagement. We conclude with some simple suggestions for flood amelioration in the future and warn that complacency is the single most important phenomenon likely to recur to the detriment of Greater Khartoum in the future

Archaeology · Environmental planning · Flood myth · Geography · Hazard · Meteorology · Storm · Water resource management · Environmental Science · Flood Risk Assessment and Management · History · Hydrology and Drought Analysis

• The Nile Basin

  Open Access•Martin A J Williams, Martin Williams•Nile Basin•2018

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• A Haddon matrix-based analysis of the anthropogenic drivers of floods in 10 Eastern African partner countries of the Belt and Road Initiative 1990–2021

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• The Khartoum-Omdurman conurbation

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• Impact of extreme rainfall in the central Sudan during 1999 as a partial analogue for reconstructing early Holocene prehistoric environments

  Open Access•Martin Williams, Justin Nottage•Quaternary International•2006

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