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08/12/2025

Floods Strike Without Mercy! Experts Urge Government to Build a Real-Time Information System Before It’s Too Late

[Jakarta], [12/8] Floods are coming faster, fiercer, and more unpredictably than ever. In many regions, water suddenly surges without any clear warning, leaving residents in panic and local authorities scrambling. This alarming situation has triggered strong demands from experts for the immediate development of a real-time flood information system capable of detecting and forecasting flood events before disaster paralyzes entire areas.

The Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) acknowledges that increasingly extreme weather can no longer be handled with outdated approaches. The agency is now developing an early warning system powered by an online network that can monitor cloud patterns, rainfall intensity, and storm potential every second. But without an integrated system, these critical data points risk becoming just numbers with little impact on the ground.

Meanwhile, GIS TARU Online reveals digital maps of flood-prone zones that have long been overlooked by the public. These maps show land elevation, water flow paths, and critical drainage points factors that have repeatedly triggered overflowing floods. Observers believe that linking this GIS data directly with BMKG’s real-time weather alerts could finally give Indonesia the most accurate flood warning system in its disaster mitigation history.

“It’s unacceptable that residents are often alerted only after the water rises. This must stop! We need a system that issues warnings before the flood hits,” a disaster expert sharply criticized during a heated public discussion.

Experts demand that the government stop delaying and immediately build an integrated platform: Real-time BMKG data + GIS TARU Online + river water-level sensors. Combined, these systems would not only warn about severe weather but also predict flood direction, water height, and when communities must evacuate.

As the climate grows more brutal and floods evolve into an unpredictable seasonal threat, the public is left asking: How much longer must we wait? Without a truly functioning early warning system, any day of heavy rain could turn into the next catastrophe. ( Nokeo AR )

05/03/2024

The UK government is expected to soon announce the launch of its long-awaited plastic bottle deposit return scheme. After five years of initial promises from Michael Gove, ministers on Friday are expected to give approval to a deposit return scheme (DRS), which unfortunately does not involve glass, according to a report in Grocer magazine. Criticism over the failure to include glass in the scheme has emerged, with activists from Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) stating that the delayed announcement represents a major missed opportunity. They say that canceling the 2019 manifesto commitment to include glass is an unreasonable move and puts England out of line with Scotland and Wales. The introduction of the new deposit return scheme is scheduled for 2024, six years after it was announced as a landmark environmental policy. SAS criticized this delay as it believed it would result in an additional 16 billion containers polluting the environment. Although the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs is due to make an announcement on Friday, campaigners are urging the government to reconsider excluding glass from the UK's DRS, in the hope of creating an urgent system to reduce reliance on natural resources and increase glass recycling rates.
A commuter trades plastic bottles for transit credit at a reverse vending machine at a metro station in Rome, Italy.
Photograph: Stefano Montesi/Corbis/Getty Images
source : https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/19/plastic-bottle-deposit-return-scheme-finally-looks-set-to-start-in-england

21/04/2017

mapping for some architectural styles

16/12/2016

must have

27/09/2016

The design is simple, but it looks great, it becomes very familiar and friendly, without their conscious.

11/07/2010

The Federal Railroad Administration is currently preparing a long term national rail plan due to congress this October. As part of this process they are accepting comments in the Preliminary Rail Plan published last year. Such a plan is needed to establish U.S. policy for passenger and freight rail investment and provide clarity to states and regions about the federal government's role in passenger and freight rail investment.Read America 2050's full comments on the preliminary rail plan and recommendations on the long range national rail plan.