Re:33% of Pakistan Land Currently Underwater
by freemint on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @03:09PM
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> dedicated sacrificial zones (flood plains)
This requires control where people house and the ability to remove people who do not follow the law. This is not water management infrastructure this is social infrastructure.
> the areas should be de-populated and/or evacuation procedures put in place.
They would populate on their own if were able to move freely. The volume of people displaced however would end up in the "imperial core" and apparently we can't have that
Claiming this could have been prevented with dams is asinine. But claiming it’s beyond technology is defeatist. 10x surges are never pretty, but they shouldn’t be this bad.
There are water management practices which can manage order of magnitude surges. (There were dams which breached, for instance.) This usually involves creating diversions and dedicated sacrificial zones (flood plains) between the expected surge sites and a reservoir (ideally, the ocean).
If the problem is unaddressable, due to lack of funds or politics, the areas should be de-populated and/or evacuation procedures put in place.