At the national level, there are many measures structural and non-structural and decisions to be made, integrated in a global perspective of improving the response to large floods in the future. The most important are the following ones:
Non Structural
- Improvement of the co-ordination between the most important institutions at the national and local levels
- improvement of the meteorological forecasts of extreme rainfall events (cyclones, tropical depressions, fronts)
- installation of effective flood warning systems in the flood prone basins
- improvement of the dissemination of information and warnings to the public at large and particularly to the population in endangered areas
- strengthening of the reaction capacity during the floods
- flood plain zoning and regulation of occupation
Structural
- re-establishment, strengthening and expansion of the hydrometeorological network and communications system
- re-establishment and improvement of the existing structural protection of infrastructures, evaluation of safety of existing dams and dykes
- building refugee platforms and other protected areas
- building new dams: large – Buй Maria and Moamba Major and about 50 small dams
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