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To undertake state railway administration in respect of flood prevention, greening, land, wireless and anti-earthquake on behalf of the Ministry.

代部承担国家铁路防洪、绿化、土地、无线电和抗震等管理工作。

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The Mississippi River, which used to sweep up dirt in one stretch of the delta only to deposit it in another, has now been channelled, for flood-prevention, to wash the land into the sea.

原本密西西比河冲刷三角洲一端松土的同时另一端沉积着，现在因为要预防洪水被改道了，因此会有陆地被河水冲走。

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When rivers flood in South America, small pieces of land flow into the ocean.

VOA: special.2009.12.16

He said both planning applications would deliver funds for a feasibility study into a village-wide flood defence scheme where SLP would provide the land and construct part of a flood relief channel and also help two of the most frequently flooded properties in the village.

BBC: Feniton flooding, November 2008

"It would either make them think twice about building on flood plain land or it would make them change the design basis upon which they're built, " he told BBC Radio 4's Money Box.

BBC: NEWS | Programmes | Moneybox | Call for flood insurance change

The government says it will soon publish revised guidance, encouraging local authorities to use risk-free land first, and obliging developers to pay for flood defences when they build on risky land.

ECONOMIST: A hard rain