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Plans for a flood prevention scheme for a village near Plymouth have been brought forward.
BBC: Colebrook village flood scheme brought forward
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Further investigations are going on into flooding which hit Devon in November and December with the aim of providing more flood prevention schemes.
BBC: Devon communities get ?60,000 flood prevention cash
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He said stricter standards have proved to be cost-effective, particularly along the Gulf Coast where there has been a demonstrable difference between buildings that took stricter flood prevention measures after Hurricane Katrina and those that didn't.
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With projects such as Meixi Lake City, starting from scratch brings significant benefits not open to -- easily at least -- existing conurbations, such as combining water transport with energy production, superior flood prevention and urban agriculture.
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The Tennessee Valley Authority said it was taking the unusual flood-prevention measure of spilling 1.5 million gallons of water per second through the Kentucky Dam near Paducah from the Tennessee River into the Ohio River.
CNN: Heavy precipitation expected from Texas to New England
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In Pakistan, for example, the International Centre for Water Hazard and Risk Management (ICHARM), created under the auspices of UNESCO, and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) designed the Integrated Flood Analysis System (IFAS), a risk-prevention system using data obtained via satellite.
UNESCO: Published in Mainichi Newspaper on 21 May 2012.