This article first appeared in Forum, The Edge Malaysia Weekly on March 30, 2026 - April 5, 2026 Malaysia floods. This is not a metaphor. Roughly a third of the country’s land area is flood-prone, and in the years since the 2021-2022 monsoon season that displaced over 70,000 people, the question of how to build meaningful early warning capacity has become urgent. The government — through the National Disaster Management Agency (Nadma) and others — has invested in infrastructu