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When We Reign, It Pours
Humans have a hand in Midwest flooding |
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19 Jun 2008 |
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| Posted at 8:41 AM on 19 Jun 2008 Photo: Mark Hirsch How much responsibility do humans have for the floods disastrously deluging the Midwest? Of course the rain poured for days, but it fell on plowed-up prairies, drained fields, altered streams, no-longer-wetlands, and developed flood plains -- all unable to absorb precipitation to the best of their natural ability. Between 2007 and 2008, more than 160,000 acres of Iowa land (mostly ... |
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| Topics: agriculture, Iowa, Missouri, news, placemaking, severe weather (all these topics) |
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