Sentence examples for provided flood from inspiring English sources
On the plus side, the biggest dam in the world has provided flood control, masses of electricity for cities like Shanghai and better river navigation.
The flood insurance program was created by Congress in 1968 to fill a void: because of the risk, few carriers provided flood insurance.
Straddling a gorge downstream of the confluence of the North and Middle Forks of the American River and upstream of Folsom Lake, it would have regulated water flow and provided flood control in the American River basin as part of Reclamation's immense Central Valley Project.
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The government already provides flood, bank and crop insurance.
In addition to drinking water, the reservoir may also provide flood control, hydroelectric power, and recreation.
A dam near Jamestown provides flood protection and water for irrigation.
"That leaves it to the local and state governments to provide flood protection in some of those areas".
"A technology that relies on mechanical processes to provide flood protection is not equivalent to the same level of safe protection provided by permanent elevation".
The Clearwater Dam was completed in 1948 to provide flood protection below the dam, including for the Arkansas land that routinely flooded before the dam's construction.
Having been far more effective than the civilian authorities in providing flood relief, the army, despite the humiliations of 2011, is now less unpopular than it was.
