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Cities urged to invest in flood protection now for a safer, cheaper future
SEPTEMBER 8, 2017
TEPIC, Mexico (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Expect more images of flood evacuees scrambling into rescue boats with their wet pets and possessions unless cities seize the chance to build both high-tech and simple “green” flood prevention measures into future infrastructure, experts say.
But as sky-high real estate prices in already packed megacities lead to wetlands and mangroves being concreted over for apartment blocks and offices, convincing cities to find space for water-absorbing parks and other ways to reduce flood risk could prove a hard sell.
But despite the pressing need to protect booming populations, cash-strapped cities struggling to provide even basic drainage systems in sprawling slums may only dream of replicating the massive pipes and cisterns under Tokyo’s streets, or the vast barriers protecting Rotterdam from the sea.
“The cheapest way of dealing with it is forward planning,” said the World Bank’s Niels Holm-Nielsen, noting that 60 percent of the urban areas that will exist by 2030 have yet to be built...
