We can do better than this.

• Position: SCIENCE SCENE - Flood control - Brief article

"We can do better than this," insists hydrologist Robert Criss of Washington University, St. Louis, Mo., who has not been surprised by the spring floods on the Mississippi River. "Floods are becoming more frequent and more severe. We are increasingly constraining the river by building wing dikes and higher levees, and then upping the ante by building in the river's natural flood...