"Looking forward, to have a strategy in this issue we have governmental land, the newly reclaimed land, " he says.
"Canvey was originally a series of small islands in the Thames estuary, but in the 17th Century Dutch engineers reclaimed land from the sea to form one large island, " says Bush.
Much of the Hong Kong waterfront is land reclaimed from the sea, but reclamation can't keep up with population.
To build the Oberoi Sheraton (now known as the Trident) in 1972, the first rival to the opulent Taj hotel, he reclaimed land under water in the Bay of Bombay.
President Castro reminded Grenadians that Cuban workers had not only built the island's first international airport but razed several hills and reclaimed land from the sea to build it on.
The attraction will sprawl across about 170 hectares of land reclaimed from the sea at Penny's Bay.
As in London, the main site was on reclaimed industrial land, a few miles west of the city centre, and it was connected to downtown Sydney by a new train line and ferries.
For example, how will the land be reclaimed and how will waste products be treated?
In fact, Macau draws so many punters that casinos are literally rising from the sea: the Venetian and the Plaza anchor a development known as the Cotai Strip, built on a five-kilometre piece of reclaimed land that links the two Macanese islands of Coloane and Taipa.
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The ambitious project is being built on three and half square miles of land reclaimed from the Atlantic Ocean and is expected to provide accommodation for 250, 000 people and employment opportunities for a further 150, 000.
On March 3rd the Hong Kong government announced that it was in negotiations with Disney to create the company's fifth theme park, on reclaimed land on Lantau Island, the home of Hong Kong's new airport and just a short subway ride from Hong Kong island itself.
These could include Mr Johnson's proposal to build a new airport east of London, partly on reclaimed land in the Thames Estuary.
Luanda's once shabby waterfront has been transformed after land was reclaimed from the sea.
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The new air base would be built on reclaimed land there, where sea turtles and marine mammals called dugongs now swim around coral reefs in turquoise blue waters.
As the land was used up, huge areas were reclaimed from the sea and leased to builders.
Moreover, as the tea plantations occupy the same sites on which the original tea was grown, no new land has had to be reclaimed.
The complex will feature casinos, hotels and other entertainment facilities on a patch of partially reclaimed land 2.8 times larger than all of Macau.
Hong Kong Disneyland, as it will be known, is to be built on 126 hectares of reclaimed land at Penny's Bay, a nondescript inlet on Lantau Island, close to the new Chek Lap Kok airport.
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