Most people live near water and in flood plains. Water is essential to life and essential to growing food, plus waterways get used for transport. I used to get

Most people live near water and in flood plains. Water is essential to life and essential to growing food, plus waterways get used for transport. I used to get all up in arms about "Why! Do people live There! When it keeps flooding???" Then I looked at the data etc. We could stand to do a better job of working with the environment and building things more able to survive known issues for specific places. I'm always interested in clues to how we can do this better, but there is no place on Earth without some kind of natural disaster that routinely threatens the area. It's a case of pick your poison.