Local governments don't have the money to pay for flood protection.

当地政府没有钱支付防洪费用。

The project was aimed at providing water and flood protection for people and farms.

该项目旨在为人们和农场提供水和洪水保护。

Overall, they found that the flood protection benefits of coral reefs save the global economy $4 billion dollars a year.

总体来说，他们发现珊瑚礁的防洪效益每年为全球经济节省了40亿美元。

Everyone in the Netherlands contributes to flood protection, through the taxes they pay — even those who don't live near water.

在荷兰，每个人都通过纳税来为防洪做贡献——甚至包括那些不住在水边的人。

So much so, that some of the earliest Dutch governing bodies were informal " water boards" that coordinated flood protection projects.

鉴于这样的情况，荷兰最早的一些政治团体曾经是组织防洪项目的非正式的“水资源管理委员会”。

Robert Turner of the Southeast Luisiana flood protection authority, says there's a price to pay for resiliency. Debbie Alian, NPR News.

东南路易斯安那防洪权威罗伯特·特纳表示需要付出一定的弹性代价。NPR新闻，黛比·阿里报道。

And flood protection requires more than massive dikes.

防洪需要的不仅仅是巨大的堤坝。

We need to push for more affordable housing, green infrastructure and flood protections because these are the solutions that solve many problems at once.

我们需要推动建设更多经济适用房、绿色基础设施和防洪设施， 因为这些是同时解决许多问题的解决方案。

Many argued against this controversial construction, but others estimated that the lives saved by the dam's flood protection would outweigh the trauma of displacement.

许多人反对这一有争议的建设，但其他人估计，大坝的防洪措施挽救的生命将超过流离失所带来的创伤。

The World Resources Institute showed that for every 1 dollar spent on flood protection infrastructure in India, it resulted in 248 dollars of avoided damages.

世界资源研究所显示，印度每在防洪基础设施上花费 1 美元，就会避免 248 美元的损失。

So we thought, could we design the necessary flood protection for Manhattan so we don't have to wait until we shut it down before it gets nice?

所以我们想，我们是否可以为曼哈顿设计必要的防洪设施， 这样我们就不必等到我们关闭它才能恢复正常？

We got invited by the city of New York to look if we could make the necessary flood protection for Manhattan without building a seawall that would segregate the life of the city from the water around it.

纽约市邀请我们研究是否可以在不建造将城市生活与周围水域隔离的海堤的情况下为曼哈顿提供必要的防洪保护。