"Coastal wildlife sites provide important flood defence functions as well as havens for wildlife.
Its system of dams and reservoirs provides several important flood-control, power, irrigation, and recreational projects.
The CCC highlight data from the Environment Agency, which delivers the government's flood defence plans, that shows the percentage of important flood defences in a poor state of repair has almost tripled since 2011, to 3.5%.
We demonstrate that extreme rainfall can vary substantially in time and in space, with potentially important flood risk implications that cannot be assessed using conventional techniques.
The dams also are an important flood control measure.
Depending on the location, early winter or fall are secondarily important flood seasons.
After the war he headed the Pacific Engineer Division, where he was responsible for a number of important flood control and irrigation projects.
River discharge could be important if floods early in the winter allowed migration over physical barriers (to the benefit of hatchery-produced fish) or if they reduced the reproductive success of naturally spawning hatchery-produced or hatchery ancestry fish relative to wild fish spawning later, when flows are more moderate (Mackey et al. 2001).
The hydraulic design of the Yuansantze Flood Diversion Works (YFDW) project was considerably important for flood mitigation in Taiwan, and positive outcomes of the public hearings played a major role in the success of the project.
On Thursday, Andrea Leadsom confirmed to parliament that, although flood defences such as concrete barriers are "very important", natural flood management is "vital" as well.
