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Floods are a natural disaster that causes massive damage to the infrastructure, they are hard to contain and the work of rebuilding all that flooding has shattered can take years. For this reason modern engineering is trying to come up with new, more effective and improved methods to prevent the possibility that densely populated areas could go under water, constructing dams, barriers and trying various other innovative approaches. This, however, does not always solve the matter the case of flood in New Orleans after hurricane Katrina demonstrated that man is often helpless against the devastating force of water. This book gives a highly interesting insight on floods, their control and most famous cases.

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