<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><a class="hzdq5d nuEeue ME7ew" target="_blank" href="http://blogs.edf.org/growingreturns/2018/05/16/less-talk-more-action-its-time-to-get-serious-about-floodplain-management/" jsname="NV4Anc" role="heading" aria-level="2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(59, 120, 231); transition: color 0.2s ease-in-out; vertical-align: top; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Less talk, more action: It's time to get serious about floodplain management</a><div class="iYiEmb a5SXAc" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px; color: rgb(117, 117, 117); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="Pc0Wt IH8C7b" jsname="lVVfob" style="display: inline-block; overflow: hidden; vertical-align: bottom; max-width: 100%; text-overflow: ellipsis;">Environmental Defense Fund (blog)</span></div><div class="iYiEmb a5SXAc" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px; color: rgb(117, 117, 117); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="Pc0Wt IH8C7b" jsname="lVVfob" style="display: inline-block; overflow: hidden; vertical-align: bottom; max-width: 100%; text-overflow: ellipsis;"><a href="http://blogs.edf.org/growingreturns/2018/05/16/less-talk-more-action-its-time-to-get-serious-about-floodplain-management/" class="">http://blogs.edf.org/growingreturns/2018/05/16/less-talk-more-action-its-time-to-get-serious-about-floodplain-management/</a></span></div><div class="iYiEmb a5SXAc" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px; color: rgb(117, 117, 117); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br class=""></div><div class="iYiEmb a5SXAc" style="line-height: 20px; color: rgb(117, 117, 117); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 30px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; font-variant-ligatures: normal;" class="">Excerpts</p><p style="line-height: 30px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; font-variant-ligatures: normal;" class="">... the National Flood Insurance Program is no longer solvent and hasn’t been for over a decade – and climate change promises to make flooding and storm damages worse.</p><div class=""><p style="line-height: 30px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; font-variant-ligatures: normal;" class="">As it was in 1993, the problem is not lack of understanding on how to manage floodplains and associated watersheds. It is a problem of will and organization.</p></div></div><div class="">
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