Wonderful photo's, such a diverse range of plant's an tree's growing along the river - stunning along with the blue skyline. And you are of course quite correct as well, stunning nature like this does need preserving for future generations and our own well being. Around the world flooding becomes a problem, but few look at the real causes - tree's and wild plants absorb the rain and slowly add it the existing water table. Replace these with tarmac that absorbs nothing and channel the run off into drains and then rivers is obviously going to cause problems when there is heavy rainfall. Add to this that known flood plains are incomprehensibly the most popular areas for housing development - and everyone acts surprised when it rains heavily and all the houses on the floodplain get flooded! When I studied Geography at degree level some 22 years ago one of the major topics was that reduced interception and infiltration of rainfall would increase overland flow with devastating consequences - it was a known issue then and still is know - but still ignored no doubt for financial gain. Superb throught provoking post - thank you.
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Thank you so much. Truly obliged. Absolutely glad, that you shared your thoughts, that indeed are, similar to mine. This World definitely needs more people like "You". The infinite looking resources to the World are actually "finite" and are depleting at much faster place than ever before and we are 7Billion & growing!!!
Needless to say, for This World..Corporates...comes first...hence...the Receding Green Cover on Mother Earth!!! Alas !!! Wonder...where are we leading to!!! Economic Growth or Global Warming and Worldwide Pollution, Population Explosion, Floods...!!! Alas! I wish for the Better !!!