Sentence examples for address floods from inspiring English sources

Mr. Chávez said the decree powers, which would last one year, were needed to quickly address floods and landslides that had left tens of thousands of people homeless in Venezuela.

The ontological knowledge base lists 99 ontological terms relevant to the potential effects of extreme events on the pathogens evaluated: 51 address heavy rainfall events, 11 address floods, 4 address droughts, 6 address snowmelts, and 8 address storms (Table 2).

At least 50% has been cut from development and planning budgets necessary to address flooding.

Mecca leaders have cut the size of their plan several times, added underground containment tanks to address flooding concerns and expanded parking space.

The study, known as a generic environmental impact statement, was commissioned to help address flooding and erosion problems along the Atlantic shoreline.

Lord Deben, chairman of the Committee on Climate Change, the government's official advisers, welcomed the review but said it fell short of what was needed: "As well as implementing short-term measures, such as better protecting key sites, we need a new and comprehensive, long-term strategy to address flood risk in this country".

The approach is illustrated by looking at drainage policies and measures to address flooding in Singapore.

To address flood risk coping capacity effectively, we have to consider the collective dimension of flood risk.

The airport previously said its £16bn expansion plan would provide "once-in a-generation opportunities" to address flooding from tributary rivers.

Some actions of governance agencies could be best characterised as facilitating the responsibilisation of risk and are designed to manage risk to agencies rather than address flooding issues.

Downstream-focused engineering solutions that address flooding are vital, but do not necessarily capture the potential for basin-scale improvements to water security, food production and livelihood enhancement.