How to pronounce Levees in English

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People love levees.

Of all levees.

Communities that have lower levees or no levees at all.

Including Eureka, that didn’t have levees.

So, yes, we need some levees.

Higher levees, to planning for controlled floods.

And relying on levees “encourages a false security.”

We need levees to protect places like these.

It’s a generic model of a river with no levees.

Here, we tend to build levees right next to rivers.

The side with the lower levees is at a clear disadvantage.

levees and built windmills to drain marshland to create fertile soil.

As far back as 1852, levees came with a very important warning.

Especially along the Mississippi River, which is almost entirely lined with levees.

Even though the science overwhelmingly shows that constructing higher levees makes flooding

Some riverside communities that could afford it, built taller levees for more protection,

Putting in levees cuts rivers off from this land, destroying floodplains and wetlands.

And while levees protect these communities from flooding, they constrict the river into

These “setback levees” ease flooding on both sides, rather than protecting one city

But it turns out, even when levees are effective, they can still be devastating.

Charles Ellet Jr. - a famed US civil engineer - cautioned that levees confine rivers and

levees became the default for flood control - mostly funded and constructed by local entities.

But let’s say, people on one side of the river lobby for higher levees.

We could build levees farther back, so rivers could still expand and create wetlands.

But there’s a growing body of research that shows levees push flooding onto surrounding

The first is to fight the water, building higher levees, larger and more resistant dams

(AUDIO: “We can’t just keep building higher levees, because we will end up living behind

They have to ensure -- at least on paper -- that federal levees won't dramatically raise local

Researchers measured water levels around 13 levees in the Midwest and found they all increased

As the climate changes and cities push for higher levees, flooding is only expected to

If all the levees are the same height, both sides should be about equally protected from

Some communities that can afford to build higher levees do so at the risk of others