Liz Bonnin looks at how the Environment Agency can slow the spread of a flood, using the development of trees and soil. Taken from Bang Goes The Theory: Series 8. Subscribe for more awesome science - ru-vid.com_c... / headsqueezetv
farmed land? you mean cleared land that was once woodland? amazing how something that seems so common sense to me has to be spelled out like this for people to click on.
they're trying to stop frequent flooding from happening, as shown in this video, why put an infrastructure in place for something you plan to make obsolete?
You neglected to include a lot of information that helps the video make sense. This town/village you're talking about, Vickering or something, does this have a periodic flood problem? Where is it and why are you talking about this in particular? What has happened before that they would go so far as make farmland 'useless' for some anti-flood scheme? I feel like I only watched half of a video this time and I'm missing the part that lets me take the video's statements and turn them into a cohesive mental picture that makes me go 'aha, learned something'.
+Steamrick did you not hear her say the annual chance of flooding in the area is 25% reduced to 4% with these measures? and one would imagine that the farmers are being compensated in some way. regardless of this the title of the video is "how to stop a flood" not "Pickering, it's flooded history and hopefully drier future" these flood defence techniques can be used anywhere suitable.
wait. so lets say i am a farmer that lives upstream from that village. my house is atop a hill because i know better than to build a house by the riverside. And then i get to have my fields butchered and ruined to the folks down stream dont get their feet wet? All generalizations, I am from Portugal, but this though it may work, makes little sense for the farmers...
+davide30541 well in England we have these things called "empathy" and "community spirit" which is where individuals are not selfish ass-hats and actually care about their neighbours wellbeing, and I thought Portugal was a decent country
+ben middleton Well, in Portugal we prefer to build dams, I'm not saying that the method presented on the video won't work but from the dams we have drinking water for the nearby population, renewable electricity, we can prevent floods and in droughts as right now the rivers still have water. So it's good for farmers and the general population.
+ben middleton More importantly we have things called subsidies for land management activities deemed to be useful or in the interests of the environment because we don't want to subsize food production but neither do we want all our farmers destitute.
+ruifilipedl no,no you are right, there should be a dam where the town is and the town where the farm is. The farmer now has 30 days to leave, as do the townspeople. So much easier than helping the farmers mitigate runoff and creating catchment areas for 10 or 25 year events.
