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Water square
A water square (Dutch: waterplein) is an urban public square designed to hold stormwater during heavy rainfall while serving as public space, developed in Rotterdam.
Water-sensitive urban design
Water-sensitive urban design (WSUD) is an urban planning approach integrating the whole urban water cycle into design, so stormwater is infiltrated and used near where it falls.
Yolo Bypass
The Yolo Bypass is a leveed flood-control basin in the Sacramento Valley west of Sacramento that routes Sacramento River floodwaters south to the Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta.
Zuiderzee Works
The Zuiderzee Works (Zuiderzeewerken) are a Dutch hydraulic engineering program, planned by Cornelis Lely, that dammed the Zuiderzee to create the freshwater IJsselmeer and reclaimed about 165,000 hectares of polders.