1. Floods Hard Engineering

2. Hard Engineering
This uses technology, large amounts of money to try and control the river.
It can prevent floods in the short term.
In the long term the river will try to get out of this ‘straight jacket’ and the floods can be made worse as a result.

3. Dams

4. Straightening (or channel realignment
Meanders are removed from a river, this means the water has less distance to travel and can therefore be removed quicker. However, it increases erosion and flooding downstream. Straightening increases the rivers efficiencey.

7. Diversion Spillways ( includes intercepting channels and flood relief channels)
Floods are directed away from housing and settlements into extra land or channels. However in urban area this isn't possible, and compensation often has to be paid to those who own the land.

9. Flood wall

10. Building up of levees (embankments, flood walls, artificially enhanced levees, revetments)
The levees are widened and heightened to increase the amount of water a river can carry before it floods. They are often enforced with concrete. Flood magnitude may increases due to the increased amount of water held. Increased flooding upstream and downstream, and increased erosion downstream.

13. Straightening or Realigning

14. Channelisation

15. Containment

16. The Dijle Case Study