-is overflow of excess water that submerges land and inflow of tide onto land.
-rising and overflowing of a body of water especially onto normally dry land.
-an unusual high stage of a river due to runoff from rainfall and/or melting of snow in quantities too great to be confined in
the normal water surface elevations of the river or stream,as the result of unusual meteorological combination.
FLOOD CONTROL
Flood control refers to all methods used to reduce or prevent the worst effects of flood waters.
In other words, we can say that flood control is the prevention or reduction of the flood damage.
GROUNDWATER
• Groundwater is water that exists in the pore spaces and fractures in rocks and sediments beneath the Earth’s
surface. It originates as rainfall or snow, and then moves through the soil and rock into the groundwater system,
where it eventually makes its way back to the surface streams, lakes, or oceans.
• Hydrogeology is the branch of hydrology that deals with the study of groundwater.