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  2. Heavy rains coming your way? Here's how to protect your home ...

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    If you’re in the process of building your new home and you know you’re in an area that's at-risk for floods, try to use flood-resistant building materials. This includes: Installing metal ...

  3. Flood management - Wikipedia

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    A weir was built on the Humber River (Ontario) to prevent a recurrence of a catastrophic flood. Flood management describes methods used to reduce or prevent the detrimental effects of flood waters. Flooding can be caused by a mix of both natural processes, such as extreme weather upstream, and human changes to waterbodies and runoff.

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    QDFG25 Flood Gate. This barrier is an impenetrable wall with lifelong use that expands in length to stop water from seeping indoors. It works as a sealant for entryways, placed in doorways as you ...

  5. Disaster risk reduction - Wikipedia

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    Disaster risk reduction (DRR) is defined by United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) as those actions which aim to "prevent new and reducing existing disaster risk and managing residual risk, all of which contribute to strengthening resilience and therefore to the achievement of sustainable development".

  6. Stilt house - Wikipedia

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    Stilt houses are built primarily as a protection against flooding; [1] they also keep out vermin. [2] The shady space under the house can be used for work or storage. [ 3 ] Stilt houses are commonly found in Southeast Asia, Oceania, Central America, the Caribbean, the Gulf Coast of the United States, northern parts of South America, Madagascar ...

  7. Why turning cities into ‘sponges’ could help fight flooding

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    For example, Meizhou, in Guangdong, has been designated a sponge city but experienced some of the summer’s most severe flooding after heavy rains that saw one town experience 369.3 millimeters ...

  8. Retention basin - Wikipedia

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    Storm water is typically channeled to a retention basin through a system of street and/or parking lot storm drains, and a network of drain channels or underground pipes.. The basins are designed to allow relatively large flows of water to enter, but discharges to receiving waters are limited by outlet structures that function only during very large storm eve

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