Wetlands—lakes, rivers, marshes and coasts, can maintain biodiversity, control floods and remove pollutants.

湖泊、河流、沼泽和海岸等湿地可以维持生物多样性、防洪以及消除污染物。

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At a pace that no urban planner can control, slums spring up in disaster-prone areas-such as steep slopes, which are prone to floods, mudslides or particularly severe damage in an earthquake.

贫民窟的增长速度很快，就连城市规划者都不能控制。而贫民窟往往建在诸如陡坡等灾害多发地带，这些地带更容易遭到洪水、泥石流尤其是地震的破坏。

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Such measures had greatly helped control the floods in the 1970s, but Shah was not willing to jeopardize his cronies' interests.

沙赫考虑到这会威胁到他的选区利益，不予通过这项决定。这种泄洪措施在上个世纪70年代曾有效制止洪灾。

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However the low prices of the individual HDDs seen before the floods has not returned due to industry consolidation and tight control of HDD inventories.

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"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.

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