Alarmingly, the reservoir walls also serve as flood dykes for the Danube.
Inside, it's easy to imagine how the cathedral's vast dimensions would seem otherworldly to the medieval mind.Construction began in 1248, as the archdiocese needed a larger building to serve the flood of visitors that poured into the city after it acquired the remains of the Three Magi, Christianity's first pilgrims.
The text accompanying the displays includes information on the importance of wetlands ecosystems and the threats facing the areas, which not only provide habitat for numerous plants and animals but also serve as flood control and a natural filtering system for water.
During that same time period, 14,200 Nashville citizens came forward to serve in flood-related programming coordinated by HandsOn, serving in over 760 projects to aid those impacted by this disaster and to begin the slow process of rebuilding.
Urban streams in Korea, which until recently were channeled and served only flood control functions, have increasingly attracted attention for their potential as urban parks or residential open spaces.
I slid down a rain-made fissure into the deep arroyo that served as flood control and then across the asphalt toward the thrumming engine of the bookmobile.
At the end of last year, the DEA announced an emergency ban on the two most popular active compounds in bath salts MDPV and mephedrone which only served to flood the market with dozens of other substituted cathinones.
It has hired hundreds of primary care doctors and nurses, forged partnerships with urgent care clinics and expanded home health service to serve an expected flood of new patients.
It also illustrates that risk is linked to the built environment, and that poorly designed and constructed dwellings serve to perpetuate flood risk in low-cost housing areas.
(Junot Díaz on Haiti) Díaz is pointing out that most natural disasters (tsunamis, earthquakes, floods) serve largely to reveal the social disasters that allowed them to be so horrific.
