Sentence examples for large-scale floods from inspiring English sources

In Pakistan summer monsoons cause large-scale floods fairly frequently.

So what we mean there is, everything from road accidents, burst piping to large-scale floods and hurricane.

Dispersal by Nothobranchius may be limited to occasional large-scale floods in years with unusually high rainfall, which may transport live fish among savannah pools.

"Creating large-scale flood protection zones is expensive and in itself potentially harmful to the environment.

Vancouver and its local institutions have been keen to get residents involved in thinking about the sustainability of the city's infrastructure and its preparedness for large-scale flooding.

Reclamation and drainage improvements were conducted intensively between the 10th and 13th centuries; large-scale flood control measures were undertaken in the 11th and again in the 15th century.

Large-scale flooding of the Yangtse, Songhua and Nenjiang rivers.

Meanwhile, the ambulance services said it had bought two vehicles for use in major incidents such as large-scale flooding, chemical alerts and major road or rail crashes.

Although MCS is easy to use, it is restricted by extensive computational needs, particularly for large-scale flood inundation modelling problems.

Afforestation is not likely to reduce major large-scale flooding or deep-seated land slides, but may reduce shallow land slides and local 'flash' floods.

The Dutch National Risk Assessment NRAA) is a methodology to assess the impact and likelihood of all possible threats and hazards that might hit the Netherlands, including a large-scale flood.