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environmental hazards: flooding  

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  • Flooding leads to problems when people build, live, and work in areas susceptible to the hazard. There are very good reasons for occupying these lands, but there are also costs that are incurred when floods damage property, disrupt business, and, too often, take lives. [Source: The Encyclopedia of Housing; Environmental Hazards: Flooding]

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