of flow when it rains in all parts of the country and we have sufficient information to reduce flooding in Nigeria.
“Basically, before you do that you must understand the behaviour of water, especially surface water as well as ground water.
“The essence of it is to make sure that in future, like the flood we are having now, it’s minimised because you can never stop flood and people will be able to at least, contain some of the effects.
“Just like in building collapse that has to do with the architectural and structural.
For us that have to do with water, you know water is a very silent destroyer; it finds a way in there and undermines everything until the damage is done.
Adanu, therefore, advised that water must be prevented from going to places it was not supposed to go, through the construction of dams, building drains, enforcement of development control among other control mechanisms.
Among the 52 engineers conferred with fellowship are Mr Usman Abubakar, Mrs Omolola Adetona, Mr Olusegun Adeyemi, Mr David Esezobor, Mrs Joan Arimanwa and Mr Vincent Chukwu.
Others are Mrs Elozino Olaniyan, Mr Babangida Lawal, Mr Muntari Lawal, Mr Charles Okorie, Mr Aduagba Kareem and Mrs Olukorede Kesha.
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