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China vs. Mother Nature: Can the Dikes Hold the Rain?

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Flooding has already claimed lives and destroyed infrastructure in Hebei, Beijing, and Tianjin. Over five feet has already fallen—more than an average year’s total rainfall and there is more on the way. There is more to this than just another bad weather forecast.

The North China Plain is flat and prone to droughts and floods. But the Chinese have learned to manage the Yellow River through a series of channels. Each year, the riverbed rises due to the silt, and the surrounding land now sits will below the top of the river. Which means that the dikes are the only thing preventing a catastrophe. We’re not just talking some rural farmland being flooded, we’d be looking at a mass casualty event in the heart of the country’s capital.

We’re not in panic territory quite yet. However, all it takes is a few more inches of rain and one of the dikes to give way, and hundreds of thousands of people will be at the mercy of Mother Nature.
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