Master planning is for land use, conservation, and development at still larger scales, involving comprehensive areas or units of landscape topography or comprehensive systems such as open space, park-recreation, water and drainage, transportation, or utilities.
Urban pluvial flooding causes damage to buildings and contents, and disturbs stormwater drainage, transportation, and electricity provision.
The rent-subsidized apartments have little access to public transportation, and drainage ditches that ring each building smell of sewage.
Improved methods of dredging sediment, sediment transportation, filling and drainage technology, and soil profile reconstruction are all needed in order to restore subsided land to productive farmland.
Since World War II Bangkok has grown with unprecedented rapidity, which caused problems with transportation, communication, housing, water supply, drainage, and pollution.
It carries nearly 180,000 vehicles a day and is cursed with poor lighting, poor drainage, poor ramps and poor lines of sight, state transportation officials say.
The camp demanded therefore a sophisticated infrastructure for transportation, food delivery, waste handling, water and drainage as well as health care.
The satisfactory transportation of waste solids away from habitable spaces is an important factor in the assessment of a drainage design.
The suburb of Gurgaon looks completely First World, equal parts office towers, shopping centres, luxury gated residental enclaves, and golf courses, but as the New York Times recently reported, it does not have "a functioning citywide sewer or drainage system; reliable electricity or water; and public sidewalks, adequate parking, decent roads or any citywide system of public transportation".
The gradient of the drainage divide separating Laguna Canyon and the San Diego Creek watershed is very small, allowing for the canyon's modern use as a transportation route.
