ancient drains save chinese city from floods

[watermelony2k]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...ins-save-Chinese-city-from-deadly-floods.html

wonder if they considered that their projects would still come into use 900 years later.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

Ancient Chinese secret, eh?

Pretty cool that those were so effective, but sad to hear about the deaths, even if it could have been much worse.

 

[cubbie]

Pretty amazing

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

...far more effective than modern sewer systems at coping with the downpour

This is quite sad, really.

Reminds me of Chicago a hundred years or so ago, when they extended the shoreline miles outward.
They would need a hundred permits and studies and meetings to do the same thing now.

But it seems there's less imagination nowadays too.