> The big news in the Galloway report, based on a global review of scientific and engineering data, was this: All of the money the United States had paid for ma

> The big news in the Galloway report, based on a global review of scientific and engineering data, was this: All of the money the United States had paid for massive public works to control flooding over the previous half-century not only had failed to improve flood safety at all, but the spending and the big public works projects actually were making flooding much worse. > The Galloway report was no global warming screed. Like the Dutch national policy based on many of the same findings, it dealt almost entirely with land use and population growth. Or to put it in more accessible terms, the 'burbs. http://www.dallasobserver.com/news/harvey-not-only-can-happen-in-dallas-it-will-9816590 http://www.dallasobserver.com/news/harvey-not-only-can-happe...