Floods in the Czech Republic - summary information Dear readers, Prague Watchdog is a source of information on the conflict in the North Caucasus republic of Chechnya. However, as floods severely hit our country in mid-August and there was very little on-line information in English on the situation at that time, we decided to create this page and started providing basic information on floods in our country. From initial updating several times a day we moved to daily updating and now we feel it is time get back to our Chechnya issues. Therefore we stopped updating this ad hoc page. You can find updated information in English at the following sites:
České noviny
Reliefweb
Floods.cz
Prague Post.
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Tomáš Kočka, PW editor and project coordinator.
Summary information The worst floods in the last hundred years hit the Czech Republic in the middle of August. A total of 16 people have been reported dead as a result of floods. A total of 220,000 persons had to be displaced (the largest Czech evacuation since World War II), small part of whom are still not allowed to go back to their homes. The state of emergency has lasted until the very end of the August in five regions of the Czech Republic.
In Prague the water level of the Vltava river culminated on August 13 when the amount of water reach a 500-year-high mark. Some historical monuments and buildings in the centre of the city were flooded and partially damaged, as well as many metro stations. A number of buildings have collapsed in Prague-Karlin and other are likely to collapse or be demolished soon.
Power and gas supplies were cut for almost three weeks in some parts of the city. One half of Prague metro stations will be out of operation till the end of the year because of floods waters. The costs of the reconstruction of Prague metro are likely to climb up to 10 billion CZK (over 330 mil. USD).
In all parts of the flood-stricken regions of the Czech Republic humanitarian aid and cleanup activities are provided by major Czech NGOs. Thousands of soldiers and volunteers have been mobilised for that purpose.
The following is a list of major public money collections:
The Czech Government (Ministry of Environment)
Account Number: 9025 – 001 / 0710 (ČNB Praha)
variable code: 2002
invariable code for cash: 375
invariable code for direct debit: 558
Swift code: CNBACZPP
ADRA
Account Number: 24 44 24 44 / 0300 (ČSOB)
variable code: 444
People in Need Foundation
Account Number: 334 334 334 / 0300 (ČSOB Praha)
Swift code: CEKOCZPPPRA
Caritas Czech Republic
Account Number: 369-369 369 369 / 0800 (Raiffeisenbank)
variable code: 906
The Czech Red Cross
Account Number: 10030 – 7334 – 011 / 0100 (Komerční banka)
variable code: 300
The following are sums raised via the above-mentioned public money collections:
The Czech Government (as of Sept 3): 78.3 mil. CZK (some 2.55 mil. USD)
ADRA (as of Aug 31): 17 mil. CZK (some 550,000 USD).
People in Need Foundation (as of Sept 3): Over 120 mil. CZK (some 4 mil. USD). The sum includes money collected via a special fundraising phone line operated by the Czech Telecom.
Caritas Czech Republic (as of Sept 2): 30 mil. CZK (some 1 mil. USD).
The Czech Red Cross (as of Aug 23): 14.2 mil. CZK (some 463,000 USD).
(T,A) RELATED ARTICLES:
· Humanitarian news on the floods in the Czech Republic (provided by Reliefweb)
· Minute-by-minute information on the floods (in Czech)
· Photographs (provided by Floods.cz)
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