The Environment

Climate changes
FLOODINGS :
Heavy rains
To pound areas
Register Casualities
To endanger residents’ lives
To cause accidents

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 Overflowing river
To cause rubble (unc.),
People losing scrap piles
The strength of the current
their shelters To toss around

and belongings
To sweep away
Cause heavy casualties
Residents
To take out insurance
To get compensated for The
damages
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 Life boat

Rescue teams Rescue team

Firefighters
To be stuck in their
houses
The injured
First Aid

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 Effects of imperviousness on runoff
and infiltration

Impervious ground
in high density
residential,
industrial, and
commercial areas

To compare (sthg) to / with (sthg)

To increase / rise by … %
An increase / rise of … % in the quantity of
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water seeping into the ground
Concrete, impervious materials
 Solution :
Sponge cities
To be designed to (verb)
To absorb rain water
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To reduce / To cut down
Dangerous runoffs
A rooftop garden
A green wall
A rain garden
Cities turned
into sponges Patches of green soil
To seep into the ground

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