After flooding damaged counties south of Ithaca earlier this month, the Cornell Cooperative Extension set up networks to ensure that farmers received the supplies they needed.

The residents of Owego, a town less than an hour from Ithaca, are calling for help as they attempt to reconstruct their houses and lives in the wake of historic flooding on Sept. 8 and 9. 

Tompkins County and surrounding areas experienced a deluge of rain as Tropical Storm Lee traveled through Ithaca on Wednesday, leading the University to cancel morning classes on Thursday.

It is estimated that over one-fifth of Pakistan went under water during the July 2010 floods. While the floods left only an estimated 1500 dead, they left over 21 million individuals without homes, as a result of what United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called, “slow moving tsunami”.  The destruction of essential infrastructure created a dangerous atmosphere, where survivors now face potentially endemic diseases.  UNICEF estimates that over 3.5 million children run the risk of contracting a waterborne disease as an aftermath of the flood.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — The dark, filthy water that flooded Iowa's second-largest city finally started to recede Saturday after forcing 24,000 people to flee, but those who remained were urged to cut back on showering and flushing to save the last of their unspoiled drinking water.

A sandbagging siege saved the last of the city's four collection wells from contamination by the record flood. But officials warned that if people didn't cut back on flushing toilets, taking showers and other nonessential uses, the town would be out of potable water within three to four days.

"Water is still our primary concern," said Pat Ball, the city's utilities director. "We're still using water at a greater rate than we're producing."