Conventional flood protection structures are unlikely to be adequate, affordable or maintainable in the future.
Dams offer a renewable energy source, providing the means for irrigation, transportation and flood protection.
Yorkshire Water claims the station at Kingswood would provide five-times the level of flood protection for the area.
The Flood Protection Association said compacted snow and ice would melt more slowly than snow on the ground.
Responsibility for flood protection is spread out among local, state and federal governments.
In total, he said, 190, 000 properties had received flood protection in recent years.
But he has yet to actively intervene to make sure New Orleans gets state-of-the-art flood protection and robust and timely coastal wetland reconstruction.
Ministers estimate that the money, which will be delivered between next year and 2015, will improve flood protection for up to 60, 000 homes.
Repairing roads, bridges, the electricity grid and other infrastructure (including flood protection) will be costly, but should at least boost the economy later.
Plans for the Don Valley flood protection project include building new flood walls, installing flood gates, as well as repairing and reinforcing existing defences.
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Larger flood protection doors are being installed, air vents are being moved to the roof, and electrical equipment is being repositioned on higher ground.
The Environment Agency said the scheme would improve flood protection for 3, 000 homes and up to 500 businesses between Leeds train station and Knostrop.
The Environment Agency is asking local authorities in the north of England for a 63% increase in funding for flood protection schemes to avert another similar disaster.
But in 2008, it purchased a flood protection system that allows for a levee to be constructed aluminum slats filled with sand if the river rises.
Many think something must be done to halt and reverse changes to the structure of the lagoon that have reduced the flood protection it provides for the city.
They offered concrete suggestions for, among other things, restoring housing, encouraging more effective government, boosting the city's economic vitality and creating secondary flood protection within the city's current levees.
But it wouldn't just be an airport - the ambitious plans for a Thames Hub would bring together rail, freight logistics, aviation, energy and its transmission, flood protection as well as regional development.
Clarksville has a flood protection system in which a temporary levee aluminum slats filled with sand can be built if the river rises, but the Mississippi was too quick this time.
The scheme includes one kilometre of embankment and provides flood protection for Keadby Power Station, three sewage treatment works, two railway lines and three stations, the A614, the A616 and the M18 motorway.
The gates which were used to keep the channels clear of sand and silt were removed and buried when the National Rivers Authority replaced the gates with a new flood protection system in 1981.
The ABI report said that with people being asked to pay more towards flood protection in their area and take on more of the risk, the Environment Agency needed to involve communities better in decisions on flood protection.
"We have made some minor modifications to one of the buildings to make it more attractive but at the end of the day what we are looking to provide is an enormous increase in flood protection for that area, " Mr Sears said.
The Environment Agency said the Sheffield Lower Don Valley Flood Protection Project would involve repairs to existing defences, as well as "raising walls and reinforcing existing structures along a stretch of the River don between Nursery Street in Sheffield and Blackburn Brook near the M1".
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You may try to explode it, blow it up, whatever, depending on what you want to do with it, and in this case, they're going to send waves coming in off the shore, you know, lapping in off of Lake Pontchartrain, and they want to try to understand why the flood protection built by the Army Corps of Engineers did not hold up.
That is, as an over-populated island we allow far too much housing to be built in flood plains and provide inadequate protection for those in flood endangered areas.
The pattern was set early on, with Inter happy to sit deep and flood their defensive areas in protection of their first-leg lead, while the hosts' passing game was typically fluent but all too often in front of the visitors rather than in behind them.
Some houses not protected by the planned flood defence will be offered individual protection schemes.
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The Scottish Environment Protection Agency had one flood alert.
The Scottish Environment Protection Agency has five "flood watches" north of the border.
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