We also need to actively protect our most valuable flood protection infrastructure – wetlands, barrier islands, and dune beaches.
At a time when federal, state and municipal health budgets are being trimmed, this finding should alert us to the need to improve our public health and environmental protection infrastructure.
Hours later, the eastern embankment of the Kosi barrage, a major flood protection infrastructure in Nepal, collapsed on its left side, resulting in one of the most devastating floods in the history of the state.
Staff shortages tend to lead to an overemphasis on the construction of new flood protection infrastructure and little time and manpower for ensuring the quality of what already exists.
These latter instances include proactive and sometimes quite expensive interventions in water management, forestry and agricultural practices, environmental protection, infrastructure and urban planning, and resource consumption.
The main issues of each of these phases are outlined along this document, aiming to present the complete cycle of this protection infrastructure, from its conception and design to its materialization.
In Fiscal Year 2010, Congresswoman Matsui secured a record $86.5 million dollars to improve the region's flood protection infrastructure.
Her expertise on bankruptcy and consumer law has taken her as far as Myanmar, where she advised the government on setting up its own consumer protection infrastructure.
For example, NFPA-1141 is a standard for fire protection infrastructure for land development in wildland, rural and suburban areas and NFPA-1144 is a standard for reducing structure ignition hazards from wildland fire.
Federal and state laws and regulatory programs protect much of the U.S. population from waterborne disease; however, if climate variability increases, current and future deficiencies in areas such as watershed protection, infrastructure, and storm drainage systems will probably increase the risk of contamination events.
