Sentence examples for creating floods from inspiring English sources

The winter freeze in northern and eastern Europe is another aspect of climate, and the spring thaw, by creating floods, impedes transport and harasses farmers.

They say the government is failing to promote back-to-nature schemes which protect lowland homes by deliberately creating floods in the hills.

The idea of creating floods upstream to prevent floods downstream was a key message from the Pitt Review into the 2007 floods.

And because they wouldn't have had Uncle Sam's moral-hazard safety net, they would have been infinitely more cautious, even with the Fed creating floods of liquidity and the credit rating agencies forgetting their raison d'être.

An eruption creating floods could demolish sections of the highway.

In some cases, levees would be set back farther from rivers, creating flood buffers and shallow flood-plain-style habitat.

The responsibilities also include creating flood risk management strategies, investigating the causes of significant floods and raising local awareness, according to the Local Government Association.

He insisted that buildings should avoid creating flood problems for themselves or their neighbours.

"In the near future," the UCS report says, "higher seas will mean that high tides can reach farther inland, creating flood conditions that last longer and disrupt daily life for growing numbers of people". .

Understanding plant responses to flooding may benefit both management of wetland ecosystems and improve progress in creating flood-tolerant crop species.

Huge rainfall in the last three months, augmented by runoffs from overflowing dams in the north, have created floods that have inundated cities, obliterated rice fields and forced the closing of at least 1,000 factories.