• bioemerl@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    If you don’t build in areas susceptible to flooding in the first place

    It was access to one of your most incredible natural resources and methods of transportation, and that’s simply a non starter. Water is know if not the most critical resource we have accessible to us. People congregate near it for very good reason, and that’s never going to change.

    Plus, engineered structures need regular maintenance

    Yes, and those resources are absolutely critical again, for both maintenance during floods and for making sure people have water through droughts. They will never go away and they will always be required.