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Living with floods [Quality Assurance: Sandy Cairncross]

Author(s): Reed, Brian  |  Cairncross, Sandy

Publisher: WEDC
Place of publication: Loughborough University, UK
Year: 2006

Series: WELL Fact Sheet
Collection(s): WELL

Links:

• http://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/wedc/well/

For diverse reasons, people will live in areas that flood repeatedly. Heavy engineered flood defences are expensive and may not be the most sustainable solution, especially for the poor. However there are steps that can be taken to improve the lives of people who face the problems of repeated inundation and to safeguard water and wastewater treatment plants that are often sited next to rivers.

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