Sentence examples for building on flood from inspiring English sources

Elsewhere new housing estates were submerged, stressing the inadvisability of building on flood plains.

That is why many jurisdictions adopt strict regulations against building on flood plains.

The dangers of building on flood plains have long been known, and warned about in the context of climate change.

The government insists that greenbelts around cities will remain strongly protected, but some encroachment into their browner-edged bits might be preferable to building on flood plains.

Worse still is our arrogant insistence of building on flood plains so that the natural mechanisms of flood alleviation are inhibited.

Rapid urban development, a growth in the population and the dubious practice of building on flood plains have all raised the flooding risk in areas once considered flood-free.

Noah Katz, a co-president of the company, said he knew he was building on a flood plain and was aware of the damage that major storms had already inflicted on the village.

However, barricading, draining and building on the flood plains around many major rivers – such as the Danube and the Rhine in Germany – is also a large part of the problem.

The first paper cited in the Nobel award, titled "Rules Rather than Discretion: The Inconsistency of Optimal Plans," is considered by many economists to be a valid and innovative framework for considering public policy over a wide range -- not only Fed interest rate policy but policies on such matters as building homes on flood plains.

The Environment Agency may object to new building on flood-risk grounds, but lacks the power to enforce those objections.

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