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    This document discusses ways to prevent floods through proper drainage, rainwater harvesting, and constructing flood control structures like dikes, levees, and canals. Improving drainage systems helps excess water flow easily. Rainwater harvesting involves collecting and storing rainwater to prevent floods and address water scarcity. Dikes, levees, and canals are structures used to contain excess water during floods and direct it to non-risk areas.

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    This document discusses ways to prevent floods through proper drainage, rainwater harvesting, and constructing flood control structures like dikes, levees, and canals. Improving drainage systems helps excess water flow easily. Rainwater harvesting involves collecting and storing rainwater to prevent floods and address water scarcity. Dikes, levees, and canals are structures used to contain excess water during floods and direct it to non-risk areas.

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    This document discusses ways to prevent floods through proper drainage, rainwater harvesting, and constructing flood control structures like dikes, levees, and canals. Improving drainage systems helps excess water flow easily. Rainwater harvesting involves collecting and storing rainwater to prevent floods and address water scarcity. Dikes, levees, and canals are structures used to contain excess water during floods and direct it to non-risk areas.

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    Ways To Prevent Floods

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    Ahmad Zafirullah Shukri Zulkefli
    This document discusses ways to prevent floods through proper drainage, rainwater harvesting, and constructing flood control structures like dikes, levees, and canals. Improving drainage systems helps excess water flow easily. Rainwater harvesting involves collecting and storing rainwater to prevent floods and address water scarcity. Dikes, levees, and canals are structures used to contain excess water during floods and direct it to non-risk areas.

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    Ways to Prevent Floods

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    Lack of preparedness can lead to excess water flooding.


    Flooding means there is an excess of water on land that is normally dry. Floods can be caused by heavy rainfall, hurricanes, or a lack of
    proper drainage in urban areas where there is little open soil to absorb water. Floods can be prevented with proper planning and
    adoption of effective mitigation measures, particularly in areas prone to flooding.

    1. Improving Drainage
    o Improving water drainage helps control floods by facilitating easy flow of excess water, especially in urban areas
    during flash floods. Drainage efficacy can be improved by rehabilitating and cleaning water drainage systems, including
    removing debris and solid waste from drainage systems like storm drains and French drains, de-silting trenches and
    underground water channels and building galleys. Effective drainage systems can ensure flood waters find a clear waterway,
    leading to non-risk areas.

    Harvesting Rain Water


    o Harvesting rainwater involves collecting and storing rainwater and can not only prevent floods, it can also curb
    urban water scarcity. Harvested rain water can be cleaned for human consumption and distributed to people in rural areas,
    as well as urban areas in times of water scarcity. Rain water harvesting is carried out in different ways, including building
    ponds, storm drains, water retention basins and flood-control dams.

    Building Dikes and Levees


    o Dikes and levees are flood-control structures built to fight river flooding and water surges. Dikes and levees
    restrain rivers during floods by providing artificial water channels that prevent runoffs from bursting floodplains. Floodplains
    are natural waterways that carry excess river water during heavy rainfall. Dike engineers/constructors alter and develop
    floodplains by building dikes and levees to boost flood-prevention when floodplains well up.

    Building Canals
    o Canals are artificial water channels that can be crucial to flood prevention. Canals facilitate control of water levels
    passing through, and form linear reservoirs and water locks. During flooding, excess water is channeled through canals to
    non-risk areas further downstream or to other areas with high demand for water, such as arid and semi-arid areas. Canals
    can also be used to lock excess flood waters in its linear reservoirs to prevent flooding and store water for future use.

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