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And within 50 years or less with no maintenance, all of those areas would be reclaimed.
by vidanay 4y ago
And within 50 years or less with no maintenance, all of those areas would be reclaimed.
- brnt 4y agoExactly. It's firstly a social problem: can you get a people to be convinced this is worth investing significant time and money in for very long stretches of time? Water management in the Low countries has now a 1500 year history, planning is not for years but centuries. Expenses are a multitude of what's spent in the Mississippi Delta. That's the stuff that is needed to control nature. The Dutch have nowhere else to go, so it's existential. The Americans have space enough and therefore no need to make sure of the value of real estate in the Mississippi Delta.