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...from draining away and as a result "floods are higher and the water travels faster. You can, of course, say that the amount of rain caused the catastrophe, but it makes a big difference how fast that rain can drain away. We have to give the river more space." Klement Tockner, an aquatic ecologist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, agrees. "With heavy rainfalls, the problem with most rivers is that they are dammed in, so they rise instead of widening." Tockner cites the example of the Tagliamento River in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region of Italy...