levees are used to prevent flooding of a river to the adjoing country-basically prevent flooding.
levees are used to prevent flooding of a river to the adjoing country-basically prevent flooding.
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Levees are built along the banks of rivers
The river is surrounded by levees and pumps.
"Levees: Safeguarding Our Shores, Securing Our Future!"
The duration of When the Levees Broke is 4.25 hours.
Dams are in front of the flow, levees are at the sides.
The embankments are called levees. When the levees around New Orleans failed during and after Hurricane Katrina it led to catastrophic flooding. Note that money had been allocated for work on the levees prior to that but it was decided to use it to improve the roads on top of the levees which, technically, was an "improvement" but one wonders how it would have all played out if it had instead been used to improve the strength of those those levees prior to Katrina.
A dam, typically used to restrict a flow of water through a river, or harness the power of the water rushing by to use as a source of energy. Frequently, it is a combination of both.That is called a dam.A damDepending on how they're used, they could be dams or they could be levees.