These range from planting mangroves to increase water catchments in high flood regions to providing low-cost risk transfer methods to farmers in developing countries.
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He was photographed wading chest high in muddy flood waters when heavy rains brought landslides and chaos to Miranda in 2010.
Under Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, "hot spots policing" proliferated, in which officers flood high-crime areas tracked by a computer reporting system.
It said it was receiving a high number of flood-related calls and, with more rain forecast, urged the public to call 999 only if there was a risk to life or risk of serious property or environmental damage.
If elected, Mr. Thompson said he would increase the city police force by 2, 000 officers, flood high-crime areas with veterans instead of rookies and fix "stop and frisk, " a tactic in which officers can stop people whom they reasonably suspect of criminal behavior.
Defences, including flood gates and high-volume pumps, were officially opened in Kempsey in July.
It said the high tides could trigger "flood watches" which it would monitor.
The group's members employed techniques to flood websites with high traffic - known as DDoS attacks - in order to render them unusable.
Dealerships tend to be located on high ground, away from flood zones, but their inventories of cars can be exposed to downed power lines, or wind or hail damage.
Then there's the flood of small, high-mileage cars from other manufacturers hitting showrooms in the next couple of years (see "Small Is Big").
This can include clearing drains, improving storm barriers and coastal defences, or putting in place planning regulations to discourage development in high-risk areas such as flood plains.
River levels are expected to remain high in North Yorkshire, with eight flood warnings in place.
Despite the flood, and ceiling-high mold, her pink bungalow on Pauger Street in Gentilly was standing after the storm.
People reported how, by the time they managed to gather their children, flood water was already waist high, or worse.
Their overheads were so low and their capitalization so high that they had the money to flood every media channel, from Super Bowl ads to driveable billboards, with their promotions.
Similarly, if police flood into estates with historically high rates of burglary or violent offences, their presence will allow them to detect yet more crime while drug possession in leafy suburbs goes unnoticed.
Iwata went on to warn about high volume, low quality games that currently flood Facebook and App Stores everywhere.
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You sense a real buzz and high energy environment from the professionals and tourists that flood the city.
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Few Germans, especially in the west, want to insure against floods and those who do probably live in flood-prone areas where insurers charge high premiums.
The pact obliges insurers to provide cover for high-risk properties while the government continues to improve flood defences.
An existing agreement, reached in 2008, obliges insurers to provide cover for high-risk properties while the government continues to improve flood defences.
The charges arise out of Mr Lawlor's refusal to comply with High Court and Supreme Court orders of discovery from the Flood Tribunal sitting in Dublin.
Robert Overend, himself a pig farmer, says the high pound has made exporting difficult and resulted in a flood of low priced imports onto the United Kingdom market.
"We are registering very high water levels in the Limpopo and Inkomati rivers that could flood the town, " Ms Almeida said.
Subsequently, on October 24, Fabrinet announced its Chokchai factory suffered extensive flood damage and is now largely inaccessible due to high water levels inside and surrounding the manufacturing facility.
Maroua, Cameroon (CNN) -- Cameroon authorities have found six more bodies in flood waters, bringing the number killed to as high as 40 in the wake of tropical downpours and the breaching of a dam in the west African country.
Three Carmarthenshire families facing a flood repair bill running into thousands of pounds have won a High Court case against them.
But it has foundered on fears of a flood of Polish plumbers and Hungarian hairdressers flowing west, undercutting high domestic wages.
The relative flood of money flowing into cleantech has also drawn investors and executives from diverse high-tech fields looking for opportunities.
It will include the raising of flood walls and embankments along the River Greta through Keswick, including Crosthwaite Road, High Hill, Elliott Park, Southey Hill Industrial Estate and Penrith Road.
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