The River Rhine River Floods

Physical courses:

• Heavy Rain
• Saturated soil
• Snow melt on Alps

Human Courses:

• Urbinisation
• Intensive farming
• Deforestation
• Channel changes

Effects:

• 27 deaths
• 250,000 evacuated
• water/ power/ transport was all disrupted.

Solutions

• Dykes
• Retention
• Afforestation
• damns