ISBN: 9798174530997 - the dry channel: why cities flood when we know the water is coming (1 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The rain stopped an hour ago. The water arrives at three in the morning.El Niño does not cause floods. It shifts the odds. What happens when the waterarrives is decided on the ground - by where the channel was built over, whetherthe drainage outfall still exists, and how large the culvert under the road is.The Dry Channel explains the Pacific engine in plain terms, then spends most ofits length on the part nobody writes about: the permits that authoriseencroachment, the filled wadis, the sealed surfaces, the sediment, the roadcrossings and the buildings that turn a heavy season into a catastrophe.Drawing on documented cases from Peru, Panama, the Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, theUnited Arab Emirates and Oman, it is careful about what the science supports: noflood in these pages is blamed on El Niño, because that claim cannot besupported. Where the signal is weak, the book says so.It closes with five chapters of specific actions - one each for individuals, traders, investors, manufacturers and governments.Water never forgets where it belongs. People do. …