DW DocFilm - Floods - Challenging Our Future Part 2 November 30, 2017
Made for mines. In recent years extensive flooding around the world has increased causing catastrophic damage in many countries. Excessive pumping of groundwater the building dams the added weight of huge buildings all contribute to the looming disaster as sea levels rise a number of coastal cities sink becoming more vulnerable to flooding. More than a third of the big urban centers located by the sea are endangered threatening the Living Conditions of millions of people. Measuring the stakes in economic and human terms scientists agree that action must be taken quickly but what should be done...