But Aceh managed to bring a measure of control to the flood of aid by setting up a special agency.
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Wetland loss has been caused by the Army Corps of Engineers channeling the Mississippi for flood control, with the result that all the sediment in the river is being lost over the continental shelf.
So Ted Stevens may have saved my life and that was something a great many Alaskans could say as they looked about at the roads and bridges, the hospitals and flood-control systems, the satellite weather and global-positioning relay stations, the sprawling Army and Air Force bases, the rural landing strips and postal air-cargo flights that sustain existence in Alaska as it enters its fiftieth year of statehood.
Everything is controlled by the Flood Control Headquarters and the army.
Besides, experience over the past 30 years shows that flood damage keeps increasing despite the expenditure of vast sums on flood control.
Not surprisingly, he does not discuss the many disasters that dot the history of public intervention (the Army Corps of Engineers and flood control come to mind).
The Woodland Trust said the planting also had the unexpected benefit of reducing water run-off from grassland in heavy rain, and led to research and important new evidence of the role trees can play in flood control.
Some characteristics are beyond their control: When the interest rates tick downward, loan applications flood through the door.
Flood-control authorities were still verifying statistics related to the downpour, Xinhua reported.
Except for guerrilla kayaking by river lovers such as Raymond and others in the expedition club, the concrete-lined river has been strictly off-limits since the Depression era because the river is technically an Army Corps of Engineers flood control channel, officials said.
Speaking to a black religious group Wednesday in Miami, Florida, Dean -- an outspoken critic of the Iraq war -- raised the question of whether money spent on the conflict would have been better spent on flood-control projects in New Orleans, Louisiana.
He says the flood of geographic information these days may simply overwhelm attempts to control it.
Temporary flood control barriers are protecting two medical facilities, a hotel and the city's conference and convention center, said city spokeswoman Sheri Rabb.
The same drawback, of course, applies to dams designed for flood control.
The Environment Agency has issued three flood warnings and Cornwall Council has opened its control centre .
Either way, if our investment decisions are based on the minute -to-minute flood of financial or economic data, we are probably fooling ourselves under the illusion of control.
"The Dutch have built dykes for over 1, 000 years, " says Jos Maccabiani from Flood Control 2015, a Dutch government programme charged with developing better information systems for managing floods.
Part of the problem is somewhat beyond Singapore's control, as it depends when, and how quickly, major economies start to raise interest rates, potentially slowing the flood of capital to Asia.
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