So if you want visually spectacular flood control barriers, it helps to have flexible, adaptable technological systems.
"Most treatments based on antibodies are analogous to stacking sandbags for flood control, " said Mohammad Azab, chief executive of Intradigm.
Hoover, who had worked as a professional engineer, championed scientific flood control.
The same drawback, of course, applies to dams designed for flood control.
Besides, experience over the past 30 years shows that flood damage keeps increasing despite the expenditure of vast sums on flood control.
Temporary flood control barriers are protecting two medical facilities, a hotel and the city's conference and convention center, said city spokeswoman Sheri Rabb.
Everything is controlled by the Flood Control Headquarters and the army.
For instance, Zheng notes that China's local governments love large-scale flood control and hydroelectric projects and ignore smaller-scale efforts to improve irrigation and provide drinking water.
Not surprisingly, he does not discuss the many disasters that dot the history of public intervention (the Army Corps of Engineers and flood control come to mind).
"The Dutch have built dykes for over 1, 000 years, " says Jos Maccabiani from Flood Control 2015, a Dutch government programme charged with developing better information systems for managing floods.
Wetland loss has been caused by the Army Corps of Engineers channeling the Mississippi for flood control, with the result that all the sediment in the river is being lost over the continental shelf.
The Woodland Trust said the planting also had the unexpected benefit of reducing water run-off from grassland in heavy rain, and led to research and important new evidence of the role trees can play in flood control.
The software can be used to map out the value of any part of the landscape of a particular country to society from a carbon sequestration point of view, or, say, from a flood control perspective.
Except for guerrilla kayaking by river lovers such as Raymond and others in the expedition club, the concrete-lined river has been strictly off-limits since the Depression era because the river is technically an Army Corps of Engineers flood control channel, officials said.
Flood-control authorities were still verifying statistics related to the downpour, Xinhua reported.
Speaking to a black religious group Wednesday in Miami, Florida, Dean -- an outspoken critic of the Iraq war -- raised the question of whether money spent on the conflict would have been better spent on flood-control projects in New Orleans, Louisiana.
So Ted Stevens may have saved my life and that was something a great many Alaskans could say as they looked about at the roads and bridges, the hospitals and flood-control systems, the satellite weather and global-positioning relay stations, the sprawling Army and Air Force bases, the rural landing strips and postal air-cargo flights that sustain existence in Alaska as it enters its fiftieth year of statehood.
But Aceh managed to bring a measure of control to the flood of aid by setting up a special agency.
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The Environment Agency has issued three flood warnings and Cornwall Council has opened its control centre .
He says the flood of geographic information these days may simply overwhelm attempts to control it.
Some characteristics are beyond their control: When the interest rates tick downward, loan applications flood through the door.
Only a perfect kicking performance by fly-half Toby Flood, who nailed all six of his attempts, kept England in control.
Either way, if our investment decisions are based on the minute -to-minute flood of financial or economic data, we are probably fooling ourselves under the illusion of control.
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