Sentence examples for for flood prevention from inspiring English sources

"Society relies on healthy soil for the food we eat, for flood prevention, and for storing carbon," said Creagh.

The Didcot Parkway to Oxford line was closed for two weeks in August for flood prevention work.

About half of China's 657 cities are considered water scarce or severely water scarce by UN measures, and another half fail to reach national standards for flood prevention.

Defra said it would continue to ensure that it had the best possible plans in place for flood prevention and protection across the whole country.

More than 23,000 people worked on building and reinforcing dikes, and the government's budget for flood prevention was not expected to be enough.

Pickles also rejected calls by the Ukip leader, Nigel Farage, for some of the overseas aid budget to be transferred to pay for flood prevention and to help those whose homes and farms have been damaged.

Then we got a $9 million FEMA grant [for flood prevention, among other things].

The Severn is a notable example, and responsibility for  flood-prevention planning in respect of that waterway is shared between the English and Welsh authorities.

The Mississippi River, which used to sweep up dirt in one stretch of the delta only to deposit it in another, has now been channelled, for flood-prevention, to wash the land into the sea.

Its allocation for flood-prevention in the city-wide budget is enough to fund an emergency response team, but not for investment in any long-term preventative measures, she added.

The council has already offered £300,000 for dredging and £200,000 for local flood prevention schemes.