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flood control

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meanings of floodand control


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flood
noun
uk /flʌd/ us /flʌd/
a large amount of water covering an area that is ...
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control
noun
uk /kənˈtrəʊl/ us /kənˈtroʊl/
the act of controlling something or someone, or the power to ...
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Examples of flood control


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In this paper we explore how working together to build floodcontrol structures, especially storage capacity, may not always be beneficial to all parties involved.
Its members used numbers to bring rationality to public decisions concerning navigation and floodcontrol.
In contrast, in humid regions where floodcontrol is the determining factor, inflow - flood severity - uncertainty may further enhance cooperation.
Many of these services, such as erosion control, storm protection, floodcontrol, and water quality maintenance, are not valued in the market at all.
For agriculture, floodcontrol structures may reduce productivity over time for two reasons.
A more detailed model, one that incorporates these various externalities of floodcontrol projects, could provide results that further support ours.
These would be the maintenance costs for a dam which is mainly used for irrigation and floodcontrol.
Second, the flood pulse is important for groundwater recharge and this may be reduced with flood control structures, thus reducing irrigation water available for agriculture.
It has more technical know-how on floodcontrol.
Wetlands provide a variety of important environmental services including floodcontrol, wildlife habitat, waste treatment, and recreational opportunities.
This is when floodcontrol structures are most useful, but only to an extent.
Since there remains a benefit to floodcontrol, contributing again becomes rational.
However, when droughts are rare and floods more common, then the selfish use of floodcontrol infrastructure by the controlling nation generally confers benefits on the downstream nations.
Since much of this research has focused on water management for consumption and agriculture, other forms of water management-namely, for drainage and floodcontrol-remain poorly understood.
Halls' results suggest that floodplain fish productivity is reduced by as much as 50 per cent due to the floodcontrol structures.
This is because floodcontrol structures erode the floodplain nursery and feeding habitats of river fish, although the extent of this effect is not well understood.
Halls (1998) finds that floodcontrol structures not only reduce fish production because they reduce the area flooded, but that they also reduce overall fish productivity.
The possibility of combining floodcontrol with electricity generation will be borne in mind.
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There have been celebrated cases where the interests of conservation as against floodcontrol or agriculture have been matters of great controversy.
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Forgive me for repeating the obvious: their functions are land drainage, floodcontrol, prevention of pollution.
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