It seems that the US likes to do everything in a more decentralized way though. After the flooding near New York a few years back Dutch consultants were brough

It seems that the US likes to do everything in a more decentralized way though. After the flooding near New York a few years back Dutch consultants were brought in to see what could be improved, one of the hard things was that in the US they had to work with small local governments everywhere whereas in the Netherlands flood prevention is mostly a national issue solved by national infrastructure projects.