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    Floods occur when a large volume of water overflows the usual boundaries of a river, lake, or other body of water, submerging land. They can damage homes and infrastructure placed in flood plains. While moving away from flood-prone areas would eliminate damage, people continue to live near water for economic reasons like trade, despite the risks of periodic flooding.

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    Floods occur when a large volume of water overflows the usual boundaries of a river, lake, or other body of water, submerging land. They can damage homes and infrastructure placed in flood plains. While moving away from flood-prone areas would eliminate damage, people continue to live near water for economic reasons like trade, despite the risks of periodic flooding.

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    Floods occur when a large volume of water overflows the usual boundaries of a river, lake, or other body of water, submerging land. They can damage homes and infrastructure placed in flood plains. While moving away from flood-prone areas would eliminate damage, people continue to live near water for economic reasons like trade, despite the risks of periodic flooding.

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    Floods

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    Floods occur when a large volume of water overflows the usual boundaries of a river, lake, or other body of water, submerging land. They can damage homes and infrastructure placed in flood plains. While moving away from flood-prone areas would eliminate damage, people continue to live near water for economic reasons like trade, despite the risks of periodic flooding.

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    A flood is an overflow of an expanse of water that submerges

    land. The word "flood" comes from the old English flod, a word
    common to Germanic languages.
    Flooding may result from the volume of water within a body of
    water, such as a river or lake, which overflows or breaks levees,
    with the result that some of the water escapes its usual
    boundaries. While the size of a lake or other body of water will
    vary with seasonal changes in precipitation and snow melt, it is
    not a significant flood unless such escapes of water endanger
    land areas used by man like a village, city or other inhabited
    area.
    Floods can also occur in rivers, when flow exceeds the capacity
    of the river channel, particularly at bends or meanders. Floods
    often cause damage to homes and businesses if they are placed
    in natural flood plains of rivers. While flood damage can be
    virtually eliminated by moving away from rivers and other
    bodies of water, since time out of mind, people have lived and
    worked by the water to seek sustenance and capitalize on the
    gains of cheap and easy travel and commerce by being near
    water. That humans continue to inhabit areas threatened by
    flood damage is evidence that the perceived value of living near
    the water exceeds the cost of repeated periodic flooding.
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    including bridges, car,
    buildings, sewerage system,
    roadways and canals.
      
     ± people and
    livestock die due to drowning.
    It can also lead to epidemics
    and waterborne diseases.
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     ± can
    damage any type of structure,
    including bridges, car,
    buildings, sewerage system,
    roadways and canals.
      
     ± people and
    livestock die due to drowning.
    It can also lead to epidemics
    and waterborne diseases.

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