Flood Control

Flood control refers to all methods used to reduce or prevent the detrimental effects of flood waters.

Read more about Flood Control:  Causes of Floods, Effects of Floods, Control of Floods, Benefits of Flooding

Famous quotes containing the words flood and/or control:

    “Now in contiguous drops the flood comes down,
    Threat’ning with deluge this devoted town.
    To shops in crowds the daggled females fly,
    Pretend to cheapen goods, but nothing buy.”
    —Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)

    “I think it a much wiser thing to secure for the thousands of mothers in this State the legal control of the children they now have, than to bring others into the world who would not belong to me after they were born.”
    —Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906)