Describe the advantages disadvantages of flood prevention
Rivers flood. ... The answer is because the land where the river floods (the “flood plain”) is some of the most fertile places to be but we cannot build on it if it does flood. However if we find a way to regulate the flow of the rivers then we can truly reap the benefits the flood plain has to offer. ... Finally, easily the most effective and most broadly instigated method of prevention is to build a dam. ... As long as there are rivers they will flood.