But Aceh managed to bring a measure of control to the flood of aid by setting up a special agency.
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Besides, experience over the past 30 years shows that flood damage keeps increasing despite the expenditure of vast sums on flood control.
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.
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).
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.
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.
The same drawback, of course, applies to dams designed for flood control.
"Most treatments based on antibodies are analogous to stacking sandbags for flood control, " said Mohammad Azab, chief executive of Intradigm.
He says the flood of geographic information these days may simply overwhelm attempts to control it.
Only a perfect kicking performance by fly-half Toby Flood, who nailed all six of his attempts, kept England in control.
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.
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.
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