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Tag: flood prevention

How landscape change causes flooding in towns and cities

By Tom Turner Posted on January 12, 2016 Posted in flood prevention Tagged with flood prevention

‘In all the industrial countries, rivers have suffered from forest clearance in the uplands, farm drainage in the lowlands and water-proofing in urban areas. Forest clearance took place on the hills, in the valleys and on the plains. This accelerated …

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