Following on her 'Room for the River' op-ed in the Washington Post, Ambassador Jones-Bos and the Embassy's Water Management specialist Dale Morris delivered a presentation to river and floodplain managers during the conference of the Natural Floodplain Functions Alliance.
Measures have different impact: some have upstream effects, other downstream effects. For some the impact is only local whereas for other measures the impact is more regional. Costs and hence costeffectivess differ between measures. Also other impacts may differ considerable, e.g. the impact on landscape or natural values