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Slowing down the floodwaters

2014-01-30 20:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Environmental News Network: Putting something called "Natural Engineering" to work in a five-year research project, Newcastle University in cooperation with the Environment Agency are discovering the benefits utilizing the lands natural defenses to slow river flow downstream and prevent flooding. Slowing down water in anticipation of flooding events is being tested all over the world. Strategies include use of retention basins; wetlands development; levee systems and flood-walls but Newcastle University researchers directed...

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