Floods

 

When one or more S.D.F. die the winter in the streets. The newspapers titrate "the cold still killed"

It would be necessary to write "misery killed".

 

When a flood occurs, one writes the easily flooded zones were submerged "It is the fault with the important rains of these last days".
It would be necessary to write, the regional planning caused floods.

 

When it rains water infiltrates in the ground, the infiltration varies from 100% in the forests, to 0 % in zones waterproofed, tarred, concreted....

 

When one conceives an installation, an allotment, a village, a city one starts to set up a network of rain to send water, where?
The first measurement should be the creation of retaining tanks to absorb the water which will not be able to infiltrate any more, and not to envisage to downwards send it in the neighbor.

 

Rain water or used water, each commune, territorial entity, country, must manage its rejections, such will have to be the rules to be respected in the future.

 

Currently the floods, are regarded as the diseases, plague, cholera, typhus, tuberculosis, variola, influenza, of the average age, that one regarded as natural and impossible to remove
"they always existed, said the persons in charge"

 

Our descendants in several centuries, will have the same vision of our time for its management of the environment and the regional planning, which we have of the doctors of the average age who bled their patients when they were weak to cure them.

 

So certain persons in charge who manage the problem of the floods, were to manage one day the risks of the fires of forests, it is to be feared that their solution is not to remove all the trees.

 

Claude COSTE

President of the ACI Defense of Water and the Environment http://perso.wanadoo.fr/claude.coste.aci