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tag: water
Everybody drink more water
Everybody drink more water (8 glasses a day)
Use more water
Use more water so that if it floods the dams would have more room for the flood water.
Scraper Sucker
This machine is called a Scraper Sucker. It is a remote controlled vehicle that scrapes up mud from the floor and sucks it into a bag. I thought of this idea because I know it would be horrible to have … Continue reading
Tagged clean up, flood, machine, mud, remote control, schoolofideas, technology, water
Cover for protection
To flood proof Queensland… we can put a cover over all the houses. This cover will protect our houses and make sure that the houses underneath don’t flood. The roof will carry the water through pipes to a different spot. … Continue reading
Tagged flood, grow, houses, Infrastructure, plants, protection, rain, resilienthomes, roof, schoolofideas, sensor, underneath, water
Motes and pipes for protection
To flood proof Queensland we could build a mote around the important cities, buildings and houses. This will stop the water getting in because the motes will be really deep. There will also be pipes at the bottom of the … Continue reading
Tagged buildings, cities, drains, houses, important, Infrastructure, moat, mote, other, places, protection, Queensland, redirection, schoolofideas, Tunnels, water
Drain make the rain go away
To flood proof Queensland we need to put lots more drains into the ground of the cities and towns. The water that goes onto the ground in the cities will then go into these drains and be taken away to … Continue reading
Tagged cities, Dams, drains, ground, hydrology, Infrastructure, Pipes, Rivers, schoolofideas, underground, water
Holey ground
To stop Queensland from flooding… we need to put more holes in the ground. These holes lead to pipes which carry the water away.
Tagged away, drain, flood, ground, holes, Infrastructure, Pipes, schoolofideas, underground, water, water management, water redirection
A big plug hole
To flood proof our houses we can change how we build them. We can build our houses using concrete as the base. In this concrete we have a plug. This plug has a sensor and when it feels that water … Continue reading
Tagged building, concrete, construction, drain, flooding, housing, materials, plug, resilience, resilienthomes, schoolofideas, sensor, stop, sucked, water
We can’t flood proof – but we can redesign houses!
I don’t think we can flood proof Queensland because we can’t control the rain. I think we can just stop the damage floods cause. So, we need to build our houses on a big block of cement. This will make … Continue reading
Tagged away, block, can't, cement, construction, damage, flood, footing, foundation, high, materials, proof, resilienthomes, schoolofideas, slab, strong, wash, water