Overview
Recognizing the disastrous impact on lives and properties of affected populations by flash floods, the Fifteenth World Meteorological Congress approved the implementation of a Flash Flood Guidance System (FFGS) project with global coverage that had been developed by the WMO Commission for Hydrology (CHy) jointly with the WMO Commission for Basic Systems (CBS) and in collaboration with the US National Weather Service (US NWS), the US Hydrologic Research Center (HRC) and USAID/OFDA.