Living with Levees

Levees are intended to keep straitjackets on rivers, but engineers now find that controlled breaches can avoid more widespread damage to occupied areas in flood-plains. With a changing climate these fortifications may become ineffective and put people and communities at risk. Working with the natural cycle and not trying to control the forces of nature is a new way to look at flood control.

Green TV | November 3, 2009

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