Sentence examples for preventing floods from inspiring English sources

Or for the specified purpose of regulating the flow and preventing floods in this interstate river.

Good flood management policies play an extremely important role in preventing floods.

This year's record wet winter will focus attention on the potentially vast costs of dealing with and preventing floods.

All this represents a major shift in focus, from preventing floods to minimizing damage when they occur.

They reduce the effects of a changing climate, by slowing and preventing floods, by providing shade in towns and in the countryside, and by providing corridors for wildlife.

Perhaps we shouldn't be surprised that Paterson has demanded massive cuts at the Environment Agency, including many of the staff responsible for preventing floods.

Restore the forests and you will go a long way to preventing flooding.

In the Netherlands, climate change adaptation has long been associated with preventing flooding.

USACE was "preventing flooding," but then the rain came.

We were preventing flooding but as you know and I know, that rain came and never stopped".

Reduced household vulnerability, thus preventing flood-affected families from sliding into deeper poverty.