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IndiaPosted at: May 18 2019 4:38PM


Floating houses that survive floods, produce food

New Delhi, May 18 (UNI) A project which pioneers floating houses -- houses so designed that a family of six can survive floods and still produce their own food, including vegetables, chickens and fish -- in Bangladesh has won the prestigious RISK Award.
The €100,000 prize sponsored by the Munich Re Foundation was accepted by Nandan Mukherjee on behalf of Dundee University, Scotland, and Resilience Solution, Bangladesh, at the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction conference in Geneva on Friday.
The organizers, the Munich Re Foundation, Global Risk Forum (GRF) Davos, and the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction had received 109 applications from 48 countries in response to a call for applications focussed on coastal resilience in face of climate and environmental changes.
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