Word: riparian
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...ordinary human activity -- not just the Corps of Engineers -- that has robbed the Mississippi basin of its most precious resource: the wetlands and riparian forests that once absorbed excess rainwater like so many giant sponges. In fact, the displacement of this natural flood-control system by an artificial one may, over time, increase the number of record-busting floods...