Some actions to minimise the risk of catastrophic floods can make life more pleasant, even when it isn’t raining.
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In praise of messy rivers.
Flood risks are rising, yet communities may spend millions of dollars in federal infrastructure funding on systems that aren’t built to handle them.
Our heavy reliance on sandbagging suggests we really don’t understand the river landscapes we inhabit. We must learn from communities that have developed better solutions to living with floods.
Efforts to engineer Britain’s rivers over the past 75 years have only made flooding worse.
‘Leaky dams’ and tree planting are useful against smaller floods, but they won’t hold back the water after a major storm.
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Professor, School of Architecture, University of Technology Sydney
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