One of the village's two dikes gave way on Monday night, killing at least five people.
Jassim al-Asadi shows visitors the earthen dikes that still line both banks of the river.
It is built on marshland and protected from the sea by resilient man-made dikes.
What is more, local officials frequently failed to reinforce and maintain the dikes along the river.
Early adaptation infrastructure that adds dikes, improves pumping and canals and prevents erosion, the report concludes, would pay off.
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"I hope the Fed has a lot of thumbs, because there is water breaking through the dikes everywhere, " O'Donnell said.
The Company has undertaken repair and fixing of the dikes but it was not possible to control the whole situation.
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Experts had testified that the federal utility failed to monitor and control water quality pressure in the dikes that constrained the material.
The Fu and the Nan were dredged, dikes were built, 24 bridges were built or renovated and 12 new wharves were added.
The Company also gave warning notification to all the factories located in the industry park to build their own protective dikes for additional protection.
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The seriousness is getting stronger and stronger to the crisis point where the protective dikes having the wide top of three meters have been overflooded.
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Coal ash is captured before it can escape at a smoke stack into the air, it's channeled into ponds near the river and contained there by earthen dikes.
The industrious Dutch have strong enough dikes and clever enough engineering to survive a one meter rise in the oceans, even though two-thirds of their country lies below sea level.
One morning in Nimoo I say jullay (hello) and smile at a lovely older woman--Ladakh boasts some of the most beautiful women in the world--who is heading out to work the dikes.
In the mud and muck of China were other kinds of heroes, the thousands of soldiers and civilians who labored night and day to shore up dikes holding back China's worst floods in decades.
Back home, they had to deal with an utterly flat landscape laced by rivers and canals much of it below sea level, reclaimed by dikes forever loomed over by dark gray clouds, damp mists, and rain or snow.
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