An engineer who managed dams for years explains the tradeoffs operators make as they decide when to release water and how much to stay safe.
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Australian cities remain woefully unprepared for the more extreme weather we are already seeing with climate change. But some cities overseas stand out for having developed readymade solutions.
We cannot think of nature as something set aside in wildernesses, far from human activity. We need to conserve some elements of nature everywhere, including in the cities we live in.
Proper dam management can help check flooding in Nigeria.
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Research Officer, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University
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Professor, Biology Department, Concordia University
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Professor of Geomorphology, Obafemi Awolowo University
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PhD Candidate in Water Resources Engineering, University of Iowa
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Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Director of the Iowa Flood Center, University of Iowa
