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Swiss rethink flood control measures

This content was published on Jan 18, 2008 Switzerland was not spared. In August 2007 torrential rain left low-lying areas and the northwest of the country under water. This followed heavy flooding in 2005 that cost the country an estimated SFr2.5 billion ($2.04 billion). The Centre for Research on Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) said on Friday that in 2007 there were some 399…