Sentence examples for ease flooding from inspiring English sources

The state is investing in a plan called Room for Rivers, which aims to ease flooding by giving waterways space to move and even overflow.

The Delaware River Basin Commission has approved a plan to reduce the water level in three of New York City's reservoirs periodically in an attempt to ease flooding along the Delaware River.

The town of Ottery St Mary enjoyed something of a tourist boom as beaver spotters headed to Devon to try to spot the creatures and many naturalists argued that the beavers were good news for biodiversity and could ease flooding problems because their dams slow the rate water moves down rivers, such as the Otter.

Even the Manggahan Floodway, which was built in the early 1980s to ease the flooding of the metropolis by diverting floodwater to Manila Bay, is blocked by huts, fishponds and thick growths of a vegetable called kangkong, or water spinach.

His comments also signal that sometime in 2006 the bank will cease its ultra-loose policy of "quantitative easing"—essentially, flooding the economy with free money.

Venezuela sent helicopters and navy ships to evacuate thousands of people stranded by floodwaters as torrential rains began to ease after floods and landslides that killed at least 16 and left thousands homeless.

Norwich's public works director, Joseph N. Loyacano, said he hoped to use a $300,000 civil preparedness grant aimed at easing chronic flooding to dismantle two dams above the Yantic River's waterfall.

And on March 23rd Toshihiko Fukui, the governor of the Bank of Japan, restated the central bank's commitment to "quantitative easing"—ie, flooding the money markets with yen until inflation turns positive and looks like staying that way.And yet, despite all this, the yen has been rising again.

Sabine Pass was cut off from the mainland for a week, until Hermine's passage to the east eased coastal flooding conditions.

Others warn that the vast money-printing programmes by central banks known as quantitative easing have flooded markets with easy money and propped up asset prices while little has been done in the last seven years to address fundamental economic problems.

Pakistani authorities have breached a strategic dyke in flood-affected Punjab to ease pressure on flood defences downstream and protect urban areas.