Bangladesh Water Development Board has adopted a long-time flood forecasting technology to cope with the perilous impact of climate change. Instead of existing 3-day forecasting technology, the long-time one consists of three types of forecast schemes: short term (1-10 days), medium term (20-25 days) and long term (1- 6 months), local daily The Independent reported Sunday. Five pilot areas in the country have been selected for testing the application of newly introduced technology. Besides, a 10-year disaster management plan has been taken under the framework of Global Earth Observation System of Systems to improve sustainable water resources management in the country. Under the plan, Bangladesh is going to evolve another flood recasting model to be applied in major river Meghna and the country