In May 1949, 11 inches of rain fell on Fort Worth in nine hours, turning the Trinity River into a 14-block-wide body of water ...

Exploration Green serves as a model for urban flood control and community development, showcasing how engineering can blend flood protection with recreational and environmental benefits.

Most architects look to control ... flood mitigation to a person whose veins and arteries have hardened. Just as reduced blood flow causes heart attacks, blockages and overflows in urban drainage ...

researchers are just starting to understand their co-benefit of urban flood control. To that end, Mukuru’s experiment could offer an invaluable case study for global cities to assess the ...

The World Bank Tokyo Development Learning Center (TDLC) and the Tokyo Disaster Risk Management (DRM) Hub, together with experts from the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR), ...

that one acre of wetland provides $745 in flood control benefits to residential properties across the U.S. Wisconsin is home to an estimated 6 million acres of wetlands, according to the state ...

a professor of urban flood control at Chongqing University in southwest China. In 2014, China officially adopted the "sponge city" concept as a national programme, with 16 cities chosen as "pilots ...

Ahmedabad: Five years ago, the civic body’s engineering department, in its urban flood management report, had estimated that nearly 40% run-off of the 371.34 billion litres of rainwater received ...