Sentence examples for flood work from inspiring English sources

In addition, firefighters are involved in road traffic accidents, chemical spillages, terrorist attacks, flood work, bariatric rescues (lifting obese people out of spaces they can't exit), building collapses and lift rescues.

During Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday, David Cameron announced £10m for urgent flood work in Somerset.

The government is to spend £10m on urgent flood work in Somerset which will be part of a wider £130m spend over the next two years on recovery, repairs and defence maintenance.

In response to the danger of another flood, work has begun on a new west-bank levee replacement that will finish in 2013.

People whose homes didn't flood worked in other ways.

Flawed decisions to encourage growth on the banks of a major river and to spend public funds to build flood works to enable that growth should no longer be tolerated ("In Flood Zone, but Astonished by High Water," front page, July 31).

David Cameron chaired his first Cobra meeting this year and announced an extra £100m for flood works.

He said: "We have been working hard to make sure we reduce the flood works as much as we can".

As we stated above, polymer flood works by reducing the mobility of water in highly conductive zones near the wellbore.

Polymer floods work by adding a certain amount of water-soluble polymers to the injection fluid to increase the viscosity of the injectant (Chang et al. 2006).

A good example of this problem is the modeling of the impact of floods; work by Hewings and Mahidhara (1996) revealed that over the course of a year, the negative impacts of the flood were often more than compensated by the growth impacts generated by federal and state disaster assistance programs.