Should drainage basins be managed or natural? Discuss with use of examples from both LEDCs and MEDCs.

... Should Drainage Basins be managed or natural? Discuss with use of examples from both LEDCs and MEDCs. Drainage basins are areas in which water drains from higher land to lower land and eventually meets the sea or a lake. Water that flows on top of land along a certain path is said to be in a channel. The argument in this essay is whether drainage basins and river channels should be managed or left to flow naturally. If people try to control or alter the natural flow of water in a drainage basin in some way it is said to be managed. If a drainage basin is left alone and has not been changed or altered in any way it is said to be natural. People change drainage basins and river channels for many reasons; one of the earliest examples of drainage basin management was the irrigation of crops around the

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