Jiří Eischmann on Nostr: Yesterday I was going through old photos from the village in Eastern Bohemia where my ...

Yesterday I was going through old photos from the village in Eastern Bohemia where my grandmother was born, and in the context of the recent record floods, I was intrigued by the ones where our ancestors in the 1950s were "solving" the water problem: they drained the meadows, straightened the riverbeds and filled in the natural meanders.

Today, we cannot be surprised that the landscape has little capacity to hold water which then immediately rushes down into the valley.

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