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… weather events. However, climate change, intensive land use, and significant alterations to natural river and floodplain ecosystems are increasingly disrupting … Instead of Drainage Over many decades, the water balance has been systematically altered: Rivers have been straightened, deepened, or reinforced with embankments. … and preserve the condition of water bodies in the long term. Example: At the Alte Nebel in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, a 200-meter-wide development corridor …