Why Engineers Can't Control Rivers
? The unintended consequences of trying to change the course of rivers
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Practical Engineering
Grady Hillhouse is a professional civil engineer and hobbyist everything else in San Antonio, Texas. Randall Munroe said, "You can look at practically any part of anything manmade around you and think, Some engineer was frustrated while designing this. I...