Officials from Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Nepal and Pakistan have held several meetings coordinated by the World Meteorological Organisation and the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development to discuss forecasting.
These are the countries that host the world's most flood prone river basins like the Ganges, Brahmaputra, Meghna and Indus.
This is also the region where a huge proportion of the world's poor live.
"There exist immense possibilities for regional cooperation in flood forecasting and warning," says Dulal C Goswami, environmental science faculty member at Gauhati University in Assam.
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By Navin Singh Khadka
BBC News
You would think that nations could put down their differences long enough to be able to share this kind of information. This, to me, seems like a true example of the 'information divide' between the haves and the have nots.
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