Engineering options available to prevent flooding

... Engineering options available to prevent flooding The flooding of rivers is a natural and essential part of river basin processes and is only a hazard because they can affect people's lives. Flooding occur when a large volume of water enters a river system quickly and cannot be contained within the river channel. By analysing a river basin carefully we can learn and predict how likely it is to flood. This information can be used to reduce the damage caused by such events, or perhaps even to modify future events themselves. Engineering structures impose the most response and cause to flood hazards. The term 'flood protection' is a misleading term, as protection is only as good as the design of the protection scheme itself. Once a flood protection scheme is breached the damage is likely to be greater, causing damage to buildings and surroundings, which can be very expensive and harmful. River management schemes concentrate widely on

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